Nour
Nour was given to 139 girls in 2025, #1,531 among girls’ names; 3,462 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,420 Americans named Nour and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 7 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nour by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nour mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Nour is “a female given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Nur” Its etymology gives the sense “light” (نُور).
Borrowed from Arabic نُور (nūr, “light”).
/nuʁ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nour?
#1,531 among girls’ names, 2025
Nour rose from #2,037 in 2015 to #1,531 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 54.3 to 86.5 per million.
148 babies in 2025, the peak
Nour peaked in 2025, when 148 babies were given it (139 girls, #1,531 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 108 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 139 | #1,531 | 9 | #8,713 |
| 2024 | 108 | #1,864 | 27 | #4,043 |
| 2023 | 106 | #1,885 | 19 | #5,190 |
| 2022 | 105 | #1,915 | 23 | #4,535 |
| 2021 | 101 | #1,953 | 15 | #5,951 |
| 2020 | 83 | #2,189 | 20 | #4,810 |
| 2019 | 86 | #2,165 | 23 | #4,432 |
| 2018 | 87 | #2,174 | 12 | #7,001 |
| 2017 | 89 | #2,157 | 21 | #4,694 |
| 2016 | 87 | #2,217 | 14 | #6,252 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 97 | #2,037 | 22 | #4,506 |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,573 | 15 | #5,913 |
| 2013 | 77 | #2,378 | 15 | #5,839 |
| 2012 | 75 | #2,468 | 12 | #6,912 |
| 2011 | 72 | #2,528 | 21 | #4,616 |
| 2010 | 84 | #2,290 | 21 | #4,636 |
| 2009 | 79 | #2,441 | 21 | #4,698 |
| 2008 | 125 | #1,770 | 12 | #7,071 |
| 2007 | 88 | #2,242 | 28 | #3,764 |
| 2006 | 91 | #2,144 | 18 | #4,999 |
| 2005 | 84 | #2,198 | 16 | #5,205 |
| 2004 | 96 | #1,955 | 24 | #3,822 |
| 2003 | 88 | #2,040 | 21 | #4,067 |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,401 | 13 | #5,632 |
| 2001 | 72 | #2,248 | 19 | #4,237 |
| 2000 | 80 | #2,068 | 19 | #4,162 |
| 1999 | 70 | #2,171 | 17 | #4,282 |
| 1998 | 65 | #2,213 | 14 | #4,802 |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,610 | 13 | #4,872 |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,699 | 16 | #4,129 |
| 1995 | 51 | #2,505 | 11 | #5,404 |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,688 | 8 | #6,797 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,743 | 6 | #8,381 |
| 1992 | 33 | #3,389 | 6 | #8,155 |
| 1991 | 48 | #2,573 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,079 | 6 | #7,824 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,471 | 8 | #6,052 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,508 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,519 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,459 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,081 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,975 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,460 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,605 | 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 Nour a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,462 Americans recorded as Nour, 83% are girls and 17% boys. In 2025 it went to 139 girls and 9 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nour: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nour, and how old are they?
3,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,462 Americans ever recorded as Nour. The median Nour alive today is 16 years old; half are between 7 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 4,306 people named Nour (3,520 women and girls, 786 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,706 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 409 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,560 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,460 |
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 Nour born?
The states with the most babies named Nour are Texas, New York and California, with 57% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 20 | #1,301 | 0.6× |
| New York | 18 | #889 | 1.4× |
| California | 15 | #1,558 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 12 | #676 | 3.4× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #912 | 1.5× |
| Virginia | 8 | #913 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,083 | 0.7× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #854 | 1.0× |
Where Nour is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nour is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1981 it was given 3.4 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 Nour 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, Nour is the second most given (27% of them). In 2025 it was given to 148 of their 638 babies (23%), again the second 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 Nour
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 Nour and names like it
- Compare Nour and NoorBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNour peaked in 2025.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nour since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Nour: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Nour.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nour alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.