Nurul
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nurul is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common given name.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 141(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 483
- SGSingapore≈1 in 1.9K
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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 219 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 141 (inferred from the name graph)
≈550,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nurul 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 | #3 | ≈550,000 est. | ≈1 in 483 | 11 | Nurul | 219 |
| MY Malaysia | #6 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 141 | 6K | Nurul | 130 |
| SG Singapore | #209 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Nurul | 74 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 581K | — | Nurul | 6 |
| BN Brunei | #8 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 299 | — | Nurul | 24 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Nurul | 12 |
| US United States | — | 589 | 1 in 565K | 499 | Nurul | 139 |
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: Top 100 names from around the world + Penpal Statistics @ Students of the World.; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nurul Aminb. 1893PKBengali lawyer, politician and Prime Minister and Vice-President of Pakistan (1893-1974)
- ABM Nurul Alamb. 1929BDBangladeshi physician & activist
- Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayunb. 1950BDBangladeshi politician
- Nurul Kabirb. 1960BDBangladeshi journalist and writer
- Nurul Arifinb. 1966IDIndonesian actress
- Nurul Izzah Anwarb. 1980MYMalaysian politician
- Janna Nickb. 1995MYnot in their usual nameMalaysian female actress, host, singer, director and publisher (born 1995)
- Ghaida Nurul Ghaniyub. 1998IDbadminton player
- Savira Nurul Husniab. 2003IDIndonesian badminton player
- Nurul Amin HamidMYMalaysian politician
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 36 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 499 | #18,336 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 90 | #18,336 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 8 | — |
| MY Malaysia | data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity) | 2010 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Is Nurul a male or female name?
- Nurul is a male 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 Nurul have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 553 thousand people named Nurul in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nurul.
- How common is the name Nurul?
- In the United States, the national register counted 589 people named Nurul in 2020, about 1 in 565 thousand residents.
- How common is Nurul compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Nurul is the 3rd most common given name of 270,909 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/nurulThe 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, “Nurul” — the 3rd most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.