Niloufar (نیلوفر) is the Persian word for "lotus" or "water lily." The flower has deep symbolism across Persian poetry — representing beauty, purity, and emergence.
Niloufar is widely used in Iran and the Persian-speaking diaspora.
Niloufar 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Niloufar reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.