Noury
surname · Latin script
Meaning: l.from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements nod, not ‘need’ + rlc ‘power’, ‘rule’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Noury is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 170Kfew records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 290K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 213 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Nourryin(measured from records)
- Old Frenchnorri(measured from records)
l.from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements nod, not ‘need’ + rlc ‘power’, ‘rule’. 2. habitational name from Nourry in Nievre, derived from a Gallo-Roman estate name, Nutriacum. 3. according to Debrabandere, from Old French norri ‘fed’, hence a nickname for a lodger.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Noury is found
(measured from records)Noury 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 335 | Noury | 213 |
| MA Morocco | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Noury | 8 |
| US United States | 410 | 1 in 811K | 410 | Noury | 86 |
| CA Canada | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 170K | — | Noury | 46 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 312K | 34 | Noury | 18 |
| CH Switzerland | 29 | 1 in 290K | 29 | Noury | 5 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Gaston Nouryb. 1865FRFrench artist (1865-1936)
- Alain Nouryb. 1945FRFrench actor
- Hakim Nouryb. 1952MAMoroccan film director
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)Evidence
(measured from records)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Noury come from?
- l.from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements nod, not ‘need’ + rlc ‘power’, ‘rule’. 2. habitational name from Nourry in Nievre, derived from a Gallo-Roman estate name, Nutriacum. 3. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Noury mean?
- Recorded meaning: l.from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements nod, not ‘need’ + rlc ‘power’, ‘rule’.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Noury?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Noury in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled noury. After it come Morocco, United States, Canada and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Noury?
- In the United States, the national register counted 410 people named Noury in 2010, about 1 in 811 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nouryThe 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, “Noury”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.