Nura
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: dative singular of nur
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nʊɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nura is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 32K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 34K
- DKDenmark1 in 60K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
1,035 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Of uncertain origin, perhaps a variant of NUR, although there is also an Arabic word nura meaning ‘feature’, ‘characteristic’. Q N
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nura is read(measured from records)
Nura is one spelling over 5 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.
- English23%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nura in English.
- Turkish19%
dative singular of nur
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic14%
(noorah): light; fem. of Nur. See Nur
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
light
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- Swahili12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nura in Swahili.
- Indonesian7.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nura in Indonesian.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Nura 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,035 | 1 in 321K | 1K | Nura | 26 |
| SE Sweden | — | 315 | 1 in 32K | 315 | — | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 268 | 1 in 187K | 268 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 98 | 1 in 60K | 98 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 93 | 1 in 186K | 93 | Nura | 5 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 62 | 1 in 34K | 63 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | — | 61 | 1 in 69K | 61 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 45 | 1 in 124K | 81 | — | 1 |
| SY Syria | #430 | — | — | — | Nura | 3 |
1,035 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Nura is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Of uncertain origin, perhaps a variant of NUR, although there is also an Arabic word nura meaning ‘feature’, ‘characteristic’. Q N
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Brightness.
as a nameThe African book of names
honourable; respectable
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
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)
- Nura Woodson Ulreichb. 1899USAmerican artist (1899–1950)
- Nura Bazdulj-Hubijarb. 1951BABosnian writer (* 1951)
- Nura Imamovićb. 1974BABosnian basketball player
- Nura Farahb. 1979FIFinnish writer and lab technician
- Nurab. 1988ERGerman rapper
- Abdullahi Nurab. 1997NGassociation football 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).
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 66 sources across 37 countries.
Reference works 6
- 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)
- 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 Nura mean?
- In Turkish, dative singular of nur
- Where does the name Nura come from?
- Of uncertain origin, perhaps a variant of NUR, although there is also an Arabic word nura meaning ‘feature’, ‘characteristic’. Q N Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Nura?
- A machine transcription gives /nʊɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Nura a male or female name?
- Nura 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.
- What are other forms of the name Nura?
- In the etymology graph, Nur and Noor are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Nura have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Nura, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nura.
- Where is Nura most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nura is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 32 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nura?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,035 people named Nura in 2020, about 1 in 321 thousand residents.
- How common is Nura compared with other names?
- In Syria, Nura is the 430th most common given name of 109,151 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nuraThe 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, “Nura” — the 430th most common given name in Syria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.