Entry № 7632 · Arabic origin

Nur Nur — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender

Girl

Origin

Arabic

Meaning

"Light (Surah An-Nur + 99 Names of Allah)"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient (Arabic)

The meaning

A name that means "light (surah an-nur + 99 names of allah)".

Nur is from the Arabic نور (Nūr — light, radiance, divine light). Nur is one of the Arabic feminine names — central to traditional Muslim heritage.

Light (Surah An-Nur + 99 Names of Allah) — a Arabic name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

نور

Transliteration: Nūr
Pronunciation: / nuːr /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Nur stands.

Nur 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.

Namesakes

Nurs before her.

Real people

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In fiction

An-Nūr / Nur Jahan

Among 99 Names of Allah + Surah 24 An-Nur 64 verses + Ayat al-Nur Light Verse 24:35 most-quoted Quranic verses + Sufi Nur Muhammadi Light of Muhammad + Nur Jahan Mughal Empress 1577-1645 wife of Jahangir.

Quran + Mughal

Names connected to Nur.

Numerology

The number behind Nur.

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nur reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.