Entry № 7602 · Arabic origin

Nourhan Nourhan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NOOR-hahn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Light of soul"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "light of soul".

Nourhan is from the Arabic Nūrhān.

Light of soul — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

نورهان
Transliteration
Nūrhān
Pronunciation
/ ˈnʊr.hɑːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nourhan stands.

Nourhan 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.

Nourhans before her.

Real people

In fiction
An-Nūr / Quran Surah 24
Arabic light + Persian/Turkish soul beloved + An-Nūr The Light 99 Names of God + Quran Surah 24 An-Nur + pan-Arab + Turkish + Levantine naming
Quran

Names connected to Nourhan.

The number behind Nourhan.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nourhan reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.