Nurma
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nurma is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- THThailand≈1 in 35Kas นูรมา
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 115K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nurma itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Narima in US United States, GY Guyana and นูรมา in TH Thailand.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nurma 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 | #938 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Nurma | 99 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 35K | #281,712 | นูรมา | 49 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 226K | — | Nurma | 6 |
| US United States | — | 286as Nirma | 1 in 1.2M | 277 | Narima | 52 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Nurma | 19 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 40as Nirma | 1 in 85K | 40 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 19as Narima | 1 in 39K | 19 | Narima | 3 |
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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Nurma 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 xgn-pro, hot ashes, coals, bonfire
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In xgn-pro, горячие уголья, костер
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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)
- Lauri Nurmab. 1939FIFinnish basketball 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Nurma a male or female name?
- Nurma 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.
- In which country does Nurma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Nurma in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nurma.
- How common is the name Nurma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 286 people named Nirma in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Nurma compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Nurma is the 938th most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nurma?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nurmaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Nurma” — the 938th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.