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Worldwide, Nurse (Nas , Nurse , نيرس ) is a common unisex given name. The first name Nurse is characteristic of Mauritius, where it is quite a common unisex name, Brunei, where it is quite a common male name, and South Africa, where it is quite a rare female name. Not in comparison with a country's population, the name is most common in South Africa, India, and Indonesia. Likewise, Nurse is the last name as well as the forename.
Nurse is also a prevalent name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Nurse at Hospital , the fictional character from the 1996 FMV video game Angel Devoid: Face of the Enemy; Nurse Joy , character in Pokémon; Nurse Ratched , the main antagonist of Ken Kesey's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Nurse Billy , the fictional character from 2016 film 'Doctor Strange' and Nurse Mouse , the character from The Rescuers Down Under, and in many other works.