Nur
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Indonesian: light
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Nur is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common given name.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 56(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 257
- SGSingapore≈1 in 563
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- #985 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 259 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 56 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
light
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nur is read(measured from records)
Nur is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Turkish39%
1. Aydınlık, ışık, parıltı. 2. Tanrısal bir güç tarafından gönderildiğine inanılan parlaklık. 3. Kur´an-ı Kerim.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Indonesian38%
light
as a wordrecorded as Malaykaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi5.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nur in Hindi.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nur 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 | #5 | ≈1,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 257 | — | Nur | 259 |
| MY Malaysia | #3 | ≈590,000 est. | ≈1 in 56 | 4.2K | Nur | 159 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Nur | 67 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 420 | — | Nur | 7 |
| CN China | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Nur | 12 |
| SG Singapore | #56 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 563 | — | Nur | 105 |
| BN Brunei | #4 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 158 | — | Nur | 32 |
| US United States | — | 1,678 | 1 in 198K | 2.6K | Nur | 196 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Nur is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, light; radiance
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, light, illumination. Al-Noor ,4J!, the Light: one of the names of Allah; also the title of the 24th sura of the Qur’an. is! geoVly olglaut! 545 "Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth." (surat al-Nur 24:35). Gane GES 5 553 atl Ge aSela a3 "A light and
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In German, only
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In Polish, loon (any bird of the order Gaviiformes)
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)
- Nur ad-Din al-Bitrujib. 1200ES12th-century Iberian Arab astronomer and Qadi
- Nur Jahanb. 1577AFPadshah Begum of the Mughal Empire (1577-1645)
- Nur Muhammad Tarakib. 1917AF1st General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
- Nur Sürerb. 1954TRTurkish actor (born 1954)
- Aşkın Nur Yengib. 1970TRTurkish singer (born 1970)
- Larab. 1979TRnot in their usual nameTurkish singer (born 1979)
- Nur Fettahoğlub. 1980DETurkish actor (born 1980)
- Daphne Ozb. 1986USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer and television personality
- Nur Tatarb. 1992TRTurkish taekwondo athlete (born 1992)
- Nur Izzuddin Mohd Rumsanib. 1997MYbadminton player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 98 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 947 | #8,615 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 731 | #8,615 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 34 | — |
Reference works 10
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- 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 Nur mean, and where does it come from?
- light Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Nur have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 million people named Nur in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nur.
- What are other forms of the name Nur?
- In the etymology graph, Noor and Nura are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Nur a male or female name?
- Nur 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.
- How common is the name Nur?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,678 people named Nur in 2020, about 1 in 198 thousand residents.
- How common is Nur compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Nur is the 5th most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nurThe 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, “Nur” — the 5th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.