Nour
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Nour (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’ljus’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nʊɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nour is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 33rd most common given name.
- TNTunisia≈1 in 302(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 331
- EGEgypt≈1 in 504
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 302 (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Nour (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’ljus’. En känd namnbärare är skådespelerskan och komikern Nour El Refai (f. 1987).
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nour 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #33 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 504 | — | Nour | 153 |
| DZ Algeria | #26 | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 606 | — | Nour | 70 |
| SY Syria | #32 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 331 | — | Nour | 61 |
| MA Morocco | #72 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 640 | — | Nour | 99 |
| TN Tunisia | #5 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 302 | 2.2K | Nour | 77 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,925 | 1 in 10K | 4.9K | Nour | 68 |
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: INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Nour 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.
In Romanian, subst. 1. Nour b. (Sd XVI); diiac (Sur VIII) ; fam. (Sur XXI) ; Noor (Sur VII) ; Nuoresti s. (Dm ; Stef). 2. Nuoreful (Dm).
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
In French, Arabic nūr « light ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In chk, third person plural possessive; their (used with a special class of objects including living things)
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-Ali Borumandb. 1905IRnot in their usual nameIranian historian and musician of Persian Classical music
- Nur Hassan Husseinb. 1938SOnot in their usual nameSomali politician (1938–2020)
- Nour Chibab. 1980TNTunisian singer
- Nour El-Refaib. 1987SESwedish actress and comedian
- Nour El-Din Hassaneinb. 1988EGEgyptian rower
- Nour Mansourb. 1989LBLebanese footballer
- Myrna Nour El Dinb. 1994EGEgyptian actress and model
- Nour El Sherbinib. 1995EGEgyptian squash player
- Nour Ehabb. 2003EGEgyptian actress
- Nour Alkawajaactress
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 95 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 305 | #11,919 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 305 | #11,873 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
- 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 Nour mean?
- Recorded meaning: Nour (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’ljus’.
- Is Nour a male or female name?
- Nour is a female 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.
- How do you pronounce Nour?
- A machine transcription gives /nʊɹ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- In which country does Nour have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 207 thousand people named Nour in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nour.
- How common is the name Nour?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,925 people named Nour, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Nour compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Nour is the 33rd most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nourThe 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, “Nour” — the 33rd most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.