Ñoor
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ñoor is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the United Arab Emirates it is the 23rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Arabic نُور (nūr, “light”).
- USUnited States1 in 32K(measured from records)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 1.3M
- SESweden1 in 3.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 229 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
10,240 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Noor in US United States, AE United Arab Emirates.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Arabic نُور (nūr, “light”).
Sources 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ñoor counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 10,240 | 1 in 32K | 8.3K | Noor | 229 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,930 | 1 in 3.5K | 2.9K | — | 40 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,945 | 1 in 26K | 1.9K | — | 29 |
| NO Norway | — | 653 | 1 in 8.4K | 2.1K | — | 17 |
| DK Denmark | — | 612 | 1 in 9.6K | 414 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 269 | 1 in 21K | 404 | — | 4 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #23 | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Noor | 134 |
10,240 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ñoor mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic نُور (nūr, “light”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Is Ñoor a male or female name?
- Ñoor is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Ñoor have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Ñoor, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled noor.
- Where is Ñoor most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ñoor is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 3.5 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ñoor?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,240 people named Ñoor in 2020, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
- How common is Ñoor compared with other names?
- In the United Arab Emirates, Ñoor is the 23rd most common given name of 31,430 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B1oorThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ñoor” — the 23rd most common given name in United Arab Emirates. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.