Noor

Where Noor comes from

From Arabic نُور (nūr, “light”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Noor
  • Arabic
  • 1 syllable
Along the way
  1. 1979
    First appearance
    #8,061 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2025
    Peak, #659
    435 babies named Noor — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name from Arabic.
Namesakes

No widely known Noor turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.