Noor means light, from the Arabic nūr — pure radiance and brightness. It is one of the most beloved names across the Muslim world, worn by women from Morocco to Malaysia, and famously by Queen Noor of Jordan.
Simple, luminous and universally understood, it needs no translation to move the heart. Its single soft syllable carries a wealth of warmth.
For a child you hope will light the way, Noor is radiance itself.
Noor 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 Noor reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.