# Nur (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nur/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 863 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 216 / 647 (75% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 693, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | 14,445 |
| 2012 | 9 | 11,986 |
| 2013 | 5 | 18,559 |
| 2014 | 14 | 8,381 |
| 2015 | 12 | 9,347 |
| 2016 | 20 | 6,356 |
| 2017 | 22 | 5,778 |
| 2018 | 33 | 4,321 |
| 2019 | 20 | 6,125 |
| 2020 | 29 | 4,625 |
| 2021 | 31 | 4,481 |
| 2022 | 37 | 4,020 |
| 2023 | 52 | 3,172 |
| 2024 | 29 | 4,742 |
| 2025 | 34 | 4,247 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | 13,712 |
| 2012 | 6 | 11,852 |
| 2013 | 6 | 11,762 |
| 2014 | 7 | 10,422 |
| 2015 | 13 | 6,585 |
| 2016 | 12 | 7,025 |
| 2017 | 15 | 5,991 |
| 2018 | 11 | 7,479 |
| 2019 | 8 | 9,501 |
| 2020 | 7 | 10,291 |
| 2021 | 10 | 7,998 |
| 2022 | 6 | 11,906 |
| 2023 | 11 | 7,613 |
| 2024 | 9 | 8,792 |
| 2025 | 16 | 5,776 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 23 | 1,327 |
| 2012 | 18 | 1,649 |
| 2013 | 17 | 1,707 |
| 2014 | 21 | 1,456 |
| 2015 | 24 | 1,362 |
| 2016 | 19 | 1,635 |
| 2017 | 19 | 1,628 |
| 2018 | 24 | 1,343 |
| 2019 | 20 | 1,497 |
| 2020 | 14 | 1,939 |
| 2021 | 23 | 1,351 |
| 2022 | 25 | 1,282 |
| 2023 | 27 | 1,206 |
| 2024 | 29 | 1,160 |
| 2025 | 24 | 1,315 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 3 | 3,225 |
| 2003 | 5 | 2,470 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2009 | 4 | 3,744 |
| 2012 | 4 | 3,987 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3,959 |
| 2019 | 4 | 3,937 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,404 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3,990 |
| 2022 | 7 | 2,755 |
| 2023 | 6 | 3,112 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |
| 2025 | 8 | 2,664 |

## People named Nur

- Nur Muhammad Taraki, 1st General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
- Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji, 12th-century Iberian Arab astronomer and Qadi
- Nur Hossain Kasemi, Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic Scholar
- Daphne Oz, American writer and television personality

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.