Noor
Noor was given to 435 girls in 2025, #659 among girls’ names; 9,353 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,260 Americans named Noor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 6 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Noor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Noor mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Noor is “a unisex given name from Arabic.” Its etymology gives the sense “light” (نُور).
From Arabic نُور (nūr, “light”).
/nɔɹ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Noor?
#659 among girls’ names, 2025
Noor rose from #991 in 2015 to #659 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.15 to 0.27 per 1,000.
478 babies in 2025, the peak
Noor peaked in 2025, when 478 babies were given it (435 girls, #659 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 395 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 435 | #659 | 43 | #2,916 |
| 2024 | 395 | #711 | 38 | #3,198 |
| 2023 | 356 | #793 | 46 | #2,788 |
| 2022 | 368 | #774 | 54 | #2,548 |
| 2021 | 321 | #854 | 42 | #2,953 |
| 2020 | 301 | #887 | 35 | #3,248 |
| 2019 | 284 | #932 | 35 | #3,316 |
| 2018 | 317 | #855 | 41 | #2,924 |
| 2017 | 313 | #876 | 37 | #3,175 |
| 2016 | 308 | #903 | 33 | #3,413 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 273 | #991 | 41 | #2,901 |
| 2014 | 256 | #1,022 | 24 | #4,223 |
| 2013 | 231 | #1,072 | 20 | #4,750 |
| 2012 | 220 | #1,124 | 26 | #3,972 |
| 2011 | 241 | #1,034 | 28 | #3,760 |
| 2010 | 230 | #1,087 | 37 | #3,116 |
| 2009 | 223 | #1,139 | 29 | #3,697 |
| 2008 | 238 | #1,094 | 30 | #3,623 |
| 2007 | 205 | #1,223 | 41 | #2,907 |
| 2006 | 227 | #1,105 | 32 | #3,358 |
| 2005 | 203 | #1,148 | 45 | #2,514 |
| 2004 | 202 | #1,133 | 22 | #4,091 |
| 2003 | 212 | #1,060 | 22 | #3,929 |
| 2002 | 203 | #1,054 | 25 | #3,526 |
| 2001 | 209 | #1,032 | 25 | #3,478 |
| 2000 | 202 | #1,039 | 15 | #4,971 |
| 1999 | 183 | #1,091 | 35 | #2,534 |
| 1998 | 123 | #1,401 | 16 | #4,346 |
| 1997 | 118 | #1,415 | 13 | #4,870 |
| 1996 | 127 | #1,338 | 10 | #5,844 |
| 1995 | 94 | #1,599 | 17 | #3,798 |
| 1994 | 93 | #1,627 | 15 | #4,224 |
| 1993 | 96 | #1,597 | 18 | #3,597 |
| 1992 | 77 | #1,848 | 8 | #6,510 |
| 1991 | 88 | #1,681 | 12 | #4,677 |
| 1990 | 54 | #2,330 | 12 | #4,587 |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,325 | 5 | #8,853 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,908 | 12 | #4,087 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,383 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,981 | 13 | #3,591 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,144 | 7 | #5,577 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,586 | 7 | #5,407 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,062 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,474 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,490 | 5 | #6,980 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,779 | 6 | #6,021 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,686 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Noor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 9,353 Americans recorded as Noor, 88% are girls and 12% boys. In 2025 it went to 435 girls and 43 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Noor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Noor, and how old are they?
9,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,353 Americans ever recorded as Noor. The median Noor alive today is 14 years old; half are between 6 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 10,240 people named Noor (8,260 women and girls, 1,980 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,938 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 19 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 979 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,640 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,620 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Noor born?
The states with the most babies named Noor are California, New York and Texas, with 44% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 69 | #524 | 1.0× |
| New York | 53 | #356 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 52 | #613 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 35 | #266 | 2.1× |
| Illinois | 29 | #362 | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 25 | #334 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 22 | #758 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 16 | #509 | 1.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #715 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #441 | 0.9× |
Where Noor is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Noor is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1979 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Noor with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 12,949 babies since 1880, Noor is the most given (72% of them). In 2025 it was given to 478 of their 638 babies (75%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Noor
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Noor and names like it
- Compare Noor and NourBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNoor peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Noor since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Noor: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Noor.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Noor alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.