Nuur
given name · Latin script
Meaning: light; Qur'anic name
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nuur/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nuur is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 66K
- SOSomalia≈1 in 12K
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)
- Sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Somalia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
light; Qur'anic name
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nuur 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.
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists. 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)
Nuur is also recorded in 2 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
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In blz, coconut
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.
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 28 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 512 | #2,725 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 96 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 95 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 92 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 92 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 89 | #3,271 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 87 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 85 | #3,289 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 76 | #9,168 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 76 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 72 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 69 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Nuur mean, and where does it come from?
- light; Qur'anic name Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Nuur?
- A machine transcription gives /nuur/ (IPA) for Malay.
- Is Nuur a male or female name?
- Nuur 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 Nuur have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Nuur in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nuur.
- How common is the name Nuur?
- In Finland, the national register counted 105 people named Nuur, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nuur?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nuurThe 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, “Nuur”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.