Nuri
Nuri is given to both girls and boys: 85 girls and 21 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,189 among girls’ names and #4,818 among boys’, #3,417 among all names counting both); 1,674 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,660 Americans named Nuri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nuri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nuri mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nuri is “a male given name from Arabic.”
From Arabic نُورِيّ (nūriyy).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nuri?
#2,189 among girls’ names, 2025
Nuri rose from #6,401 in 2015 to #2,189 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 11.2 to 52.9 per million.
239 babies in 2019, the peak
Nuri peaked in 2019, when 239 babies were given it (217 girls, #1,120 among girls’ names). The 106 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 44% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 85 | #2,189 | 21 | #4,818 |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,482 | 22 | #4,661 |
| 2023 | 79 | #2,330 | 31 | #3,688 |
| 2022 | 113 | #1,816 | 39 | #3,137 |
| 2021 | 110 | #1,838 | 23 | #4,452 |
| 2020 | 138 | #1,539 | 40 | #2,962 |
| 2019 | 217 | #1,120 | 22 | #4,594 |
| 2018 | 83 | #2,234 | 25 | #4,184 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,979 | 19 | #5,055 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,812 | 21 | #4,724 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #6,401 | 18 | #5,215 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,553 | 15 | #5,914 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,225 | 13 | #6,503 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,602 | 17 | #5,423 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,438 | 9 | #8,569 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,037 | 17 | #5,409 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,429 | 10 | #8,125 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,381 | 13 | #6,660 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 12 | #6,959 | |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,157 | 16 | #5,462 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,701 | 7 | #9,844 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,806 | 9 | #7,986 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,092 | 7 | #9,335 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,848 | 7 | #9,112 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,103 | 5 | #11,809 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 8 | #7,970 | |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,638 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,090 | 6 | #9,298 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,597 | 7 | #7,879 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,450 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,549 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,598 | 5 | #9,834 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,901 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 6 | #8,156 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 5 | #9,196 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,539 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,382 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 7 | #5,317 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 7 | #4,894 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 10 | #3,769 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 5 | #6,215 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #5,268 |
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 Nuri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,674 Americans recorded as Nuri, 70% are girls and 30% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nuri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nuri, and how old are they?
1,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,674 Americans ever recorded as Nuri. The median Nuri alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 1,396 people named Nuri (823 women and girls, 573 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 936 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% 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 | 26 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 77 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 264 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,290 |
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 Nuri born?
The states with the most babies named Nuri are Pennsylvania, Texas and Georgia, with 63% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #751 | 2.2× |
| Texas | 9 | #2,343 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,175 | 1.6× |
| California | 7 | #2,706 | 0.2× |
| Maryland | 6 | #813 | 1.7× |
| New York | 5 | #2,332 | 0.6× |
Where Nuri is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nuri is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1975 it was given 2.2 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 Nuri 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 3,816 babies since 1880, Nuri is the most given (44% of them). In 2025 it was given to 106 of their 206 babies (51%), 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 Nuri
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 Nuri and names like it
- Compare Nuri and NuraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNuri peaked in 2019.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nuri since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Nuri: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Nuri.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nuri alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.