Entry № 6251 · Persian origin

Mahnoor Mahnoor — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAH-noor /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Light of the moon (popular South Asian)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "light of the moon (popular south asian)".

Mahnoor Sheikh — modern Pakistani-American figure. Mahnoor Hyat — Pakistani actress.

Light of the moon (popular South Asian) — a Persian name.

The name in its native script.

ماہ نور
Transliteration
Māh-Nūr
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɑː.nʊər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mahnoor stands.

Mahnoor 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.

Mahnoors before her.

Real people
Mahnoor Baloch
Iconic Pakistani Pride of Performance actress.
born 1970
Mahnoor Cheema
Pakistani-British academic prodigy.
born 2005
In fiction
Mahnoor
Persian + Arabic moonlight.

Names connected to Mahnoor.

The number behind Mahnoor.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mahnoor reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.