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Onur

Boys' name

Honour

Onur has been given to 194 babies in the U.S. since 1981. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2016, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Onur, 2024

1 in 669,000

Onur over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Onur: meaning, origin, and history

Honour

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Onur means

Onur means “honour”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Onur is used in Turkish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /o.ˈnuɾ/ for Onur.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Onur is pronounced /onuɾ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 194 boys were recorded with the name Onur between 1981 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2016; its best national rank was #5,432 in 1996.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Onur?

Onur had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Onur sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Onur. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Onurs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Onur was born before 2009 — so the typical Onur is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
194
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 34.5% of all recorded uses (67).

Is Onur rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2016 (12)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,432
1996

Spellings of Onur

Onur is not the most common spelling — Omar is, with 68.9% against Onur's 0.13%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Onur around the world

Where Onur ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2014
    #680
    in 2014
  • France
    1981–2025
    #5,471
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1996–1996
    #540
    in 1996

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Onur by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,432
1996
Peak year
2016
12 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
194
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Onur

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

NurKonurAnnurAlinurAhmednur

Sibling names for Onur

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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