Entry № 7619 · Swahili origin

Nuru Nuru — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Swahili
Meaning
"Light"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "light".

Nuru is a name of Swahili origin, meaning light.

Light — a Swahili name.

The name in its native script.

Nuru
Transliteration
Nuru
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Nuru stands.

Nuru 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.

Nurus before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Nuru.

The number behind Nuru.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nuru reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.