Når
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Når is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. In Malaysia it is the 8th most common given name. Recorded meaning: °, d ‘Light’. APPENDIX: ARABIC R APPENDIX: ARABIC.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 153as Nor(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 1.2Kas Nor
- SGSingapore≈1 in 4.4Kas Nor
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Når itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
≈220,000 named Nor, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nor in MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia, SG Singapore and 1 more, Nur in BD Bangladesh, US United States, SE Sweden and Nour in TN Tunisia.
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)
°, d ‘Light’. APPENDIX: ARABIC R APPENDIX: ARABIC
Sources 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of Islamic Names
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Når 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #384 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Nor | 114 |
| MY Malaysia | #8 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 153 | 4.2K | Nor | 150 |
| BD Bangladesh | #9 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | listed | Nur | 116 |
| US United States | — | 10,240as Noor | 1 in 32K | 8.3K | Nur | 118 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Nor | 19 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,570as Nour | 1 in 2.9K | 3.6K | Nur | 15 |
| SG Singapore | #312 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Nor | 61 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 79K | 2.2K | Nour | 4 |
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: data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Når is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, present indicative of nå
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, when (at what time)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, when
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Når mean, and where does it come from?
- °, d ‘Light’. APPENDIX: ARABIC R APPENDIX: ARABIC Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of Islamic Names and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Når have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 218 thousand people named Nor in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Når?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,240 people named Noor in 2020, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
- How common is Når compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Når is the 384th most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%A5rThe 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, “Når” — the 384th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.