Entry № 297 · Other origin

Ainur Ainur — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ai-NOOR /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Moon-light"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Kazakh)

A name that means "moon-light".

Ainur is from the Kazakh Айнұр (Ainur — ai moon + nur light) — moon-light, radiance of moon. Ainur is one of the Kazakh + Tatar feminine names — central to traditional Kazakh-Islamic heritage.

Moon-light.

The name in its native script.

Айнұр
Transliteration
Ainur
Pronunciation
/ aɪˈnʊr /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ainur stands.

Ainur does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ainurs before her.

Real people

In fiction
Ainur (Tolkien)
Order of angelic spirits in The Silmarillion.
The Silmarillion

Names connected to Ainur.

The number behind Ainur.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ainur reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.