Used for both girls and boys across the Arab world, Nour is also common as a compound element — Nour al-Din ("light of the faith"), Nour al-Huda ("light of guidance"). In the West, the single-syllable form has caught on quickly: Nour entered the U.S. top 1000 only recently and is currently among the fastest-rising names in the country.
The appeal is the brevity, the universally recognised meaning, and the way it crosses cultural lines without losing its identity. A name that travels well.
Nour 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 Nour reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.