Nor
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from sabine Nero ‘hero’ or Greek aner ‘man’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nor/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nor is a given name 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.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 153(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 1.2K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 4.4K
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 Nor 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 153 (inferred from the name graph)
≈220,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nur in BD Bangladesh, US United States, SE Sweden.
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 sabine Nero ‘hero’ or Greek aner ‘man’
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nor 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 |
| DK Denmark | — | 870 | 1 in 6.7K | 791 | — | — |
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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Nor is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, And... not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Norwegian.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, jail, prison; imprisonment
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovenian, crazy, insane, mad
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, narrow strait
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- A. C. Norb. 1903CZCzechoslovak writer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 791 | #380 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 602 | #2,433 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 299 | #18,901 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 274 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 267 | #18,901 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 79 | #1,898 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 6 | — |
| MY Malaysia | data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity) | 2010 | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nor mean, and where does it come from?
- from sabine Nero ‘hero’ or Greek aner ‘man’ Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Nor?
- A machine transcription gives /nor/ (IPA) for Malay.
- Is Nor a male or female name?
- Nor 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 Nor have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 218 thousand people named Nor in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nor.
- How common is the name Nor?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 870 people named Nor, about 1 in 6.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Nor compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Nor is the 384th most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nor?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/norThe 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, “Nor” — the 384th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.