Noor

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Noor boys named Noor

Girls and boys called Noor

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 8,276 girls and 1,077 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 435 to 43.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 42 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births

9,353

Estimated living today

9,300

Median age today

13

Peak year

2025

Best rank

659th

Rank in 2025

659th

First recorded

1979

Girls / boys

8,276 / 1,077

How old the living Noors are

born that year still alive today

Of the 9,353 babies given the name since 1979, about 9,300 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 5,900 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

From Arabic نُور (“light”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Noors

• Noor Pahlavi (born 1992)member of Pahlavi dynasty

People named Noor with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Noor is most common

• CA1,282
• NY986
• TX805
• MI636
• IL626
• VA417
• NJ366
• FL337
• OH250
• PA208

Relative to how many babies each state records, Noor is most concentrated in Virginia (2.7×), Michigan (2.4×), New Jersey (1.9×), California (1.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2025

The most popular girls’ names the year Noor peaked:

• Olivia
• Charlotte
• Emma
• Amelia
• Sophia
• Mia

All the names of 2025

Noor elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Noor: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Noor is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.04% of children were given it – 43 of them.

Noor: rank by region

In 2025, Noor was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Noor was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain. It has come first somewhere in 6 different years.

In 2021, Noor was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Noor appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (2nd), Province of East Flanders (5th), Province of Flemish Brabant (11th), Province of Limburg (18th), Province of West Flanders (20th), Brussels-Capital Region (41st) and Province of Hainaut (187th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Noor by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Noor among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Noor lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 1,945 women called Noor were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 41 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 11 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Noora

Noor against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Noor vs Noora

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