Nur
The girl's name Nur has been in the national records since 1981, with 863 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 4,172nd. About 850 Nurs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Nur boys named Nur
Girls and boys called Nur
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Nur crossed from boys to girls in 2016, and has stayed there for 10 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 86% girls, and in 2025 it was 68%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 11 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
- 863
- Estimated living today
- 850
- Median age today
- 10
- Peak year
- 2023
- Best rank
- 3,140th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,172nd
- First recorded
- 1981
- Girls / boys
- 647 / 216
How old the living Nurs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 863 babies given the name since 1981, about 850 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 540 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 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.
Notable Nurs
- Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917–1979)1st General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
- Nur Jahan (1577–1645)Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire
- Nur ad-Din (1118–1174)Emir of Aleppo (1146–1174) and Damascus
- Nur Fettahoğlu (born 1980)Turkish actor
- Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji (died 1204)12th-century Iberian Arab astronomer and Qadi
- Nur Hassan Hussein (1938–2020)Somali politician
- Nur Tatar (born 1992)Turkish taekwondo athlete
- Nur Dhabitah Sabri (born 1999)Malaysian diver
People named Nur with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Nur is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Nur is most concentrated in New York (5.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2023
The most popular girls’ names the year Nur peaked:
Nur elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Nur | 608 | 1,160th |
| France girls | Nur +1 spelling | 320 | 1,789th |
| England and Wales boys | Nur | 85 | 2,404th |
| Belgium girls | Nur | 81 | 1,087th |
| Scotland girls | Nur | 30 | 509th |
| Switzerland boys | Nur | 24 | 957th |
| Ireland girls | Nur | 11 | 750th |
| France boys | Nur | 5 | 4,084th |
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.
Nur: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Nur | 19 | 0.002% | 934th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Nur | 5 | 0.001% | 653rd |
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.
Nur: rank by region
In 2017, Nur was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Nur | 845 | 5 |
In 2023, Nur was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Nur | 6 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain 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.
Nur by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 7 | 390th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Nur 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.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Nur | 220 | 2,517 |
| Finland girls | Nur | 43 | 195 |
| Finland boys | Nur | 33 | 110 |
| the Netherlands boys | Nur | 25 | 69 |
Among girls in the Netherlands this is mostly a middle name: of the 2,517 who carry it, 220 go by it.
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 Nur lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 924 women called Nur 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
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Nur | 148 | 3.418 | 55 |
| Ceuta | Nur | 13 | 0.314 | 455 |
| Girona | Nur | 52 | 0.126 | 684 |
| Tarragona | Nur | 33 | 0.075 | 1,019 |
| Gipuzkoa | Nur | 27 | 0.072 | 977 |
| Araba/Álava | Nur | 11 | 0.063 | 1,149 |
Listed in 27 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 25 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
Nur against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.