Nuŕ

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nuŕ is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Türkiye it is the 34th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Arabic نُور (nūr, “light”).

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 14M(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 77Kas Nour
  • FIFinland1 in 19K

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 Nuŕ 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.

Spain (measured from records)

4,925 named Nour

#948 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
131 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

NuŕLatin(measured from records)
ΝουρGreek(measured from records)
НүрCyrillic(measured from records)
ՆուռArmenian(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nur in TR Türkiye, ES Spain, US United States.

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 5

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Nordic Names
  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nuŕ 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.

Where Nuŕ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain—4,925as Nour1 in 10K4.9KNur58
US United States—4,306as Nour1 in 77K3.5KNur129
SE Sweden—3,570as Nour1 in 2.9K3.6K—16
DK Denmark—580as Nour1 in 10K480——
NO Norway—403as Nour1 in 14K1.2K—8
FI Finland—2971 in 19K386—3
TR Türkiye#34≈6 est.≈1 in 14M—Nur131

4,925 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling nour. 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nuŕ is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Malay given name181 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia

    Languages: Malay, Bangla, Indonesian

    Also written Nor, Nur, Noor, Nar, নুর

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Nuŕ under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nuŕ mean, and where does it come from?
From Arabic نُور (nūr, “light”). Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
Is Nuŕ a male or female name?
Nuŕ is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Nuŕ have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Nour, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Nuŕ most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nuŕ is densest in Finland — about 1 in 19 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Nuŕ?
In Finland, the national register counted 297 people named Nuŕ, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
How common is Nuŕ compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Nuŕ is the 34th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.

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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, “Nuŕ” — the 34th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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