Noura
Noura was given to 83 girls in 2025, #2,232 among girls’ names; 1,219 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Noura and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Noura by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Noura?
#2,232 among girls’ names, 2025
Noura rose from #3,901 in 2015 to #2,232 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 21.8 to 51.6 per million.
92 babies in 2024, the peak
Noura peaked in 2024, when 92 girls were given it, #2,094 among girls’ names. The 83 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #2,232 | 51.6 |
| 2024 | 92 | #2,094 | 56.8 |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,725 | 39.9 |
| 2022 | 77 | #2,398 | 46.9 |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,244 | 30.5 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,377 | 28.5 |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,651 | 25.0 |
| 2018 | 60 | #2,833 | 35.3 |
| 2017 | 55 | #3,006 | 31.9 |
| 2016 | 47 | #3,405 | 26.5 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,901 | 21.8 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,901 | 21.8 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,727 | 17.1 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,519 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,781 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,918 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,269 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,106 | 15.3 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,849 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,292 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,736 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,249 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,737 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,860 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,537 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,928 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,154 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,890 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,086 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,834 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,917 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,456 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,344 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,531 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,863 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,322 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,052 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,514 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,493 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,260 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,917 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,848 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Noura a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Noura has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Noura: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Noura, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,219 Americans ever recorded as Noura. The median Noura alive today is 10 years old; half are between 4 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,469 people named Noura (1,466 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 811 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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 | 136 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 352 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 720 |
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 Noura born?
The states with the most babies named Noura are California, New York and Texas, with 61% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 13 | #1,720 | 0.8× |
| New York | 9 | #1,489 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 9 | #2,342 | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #828 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,084 | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,570 | 0.3× |
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 Noura 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 233,893 babies since 1880, Noura is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 83 of their 7,982 babies (1.0%), again the fourth 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 Noura
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 Noura and names like it
- Compare Noura and NoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNoura peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Noura since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Noura.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Noura alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.