Nuri

Where Nuri comes from

From Arabic نُورِيّ (nūriyy).
— Wiktionary's entry for Nuri
  • Arabic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1989
    First appearance
    #8,761 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2014
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2019
    Peak, #1,119
    217 babies named Nuri — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2023
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,314.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic.
Namesakes

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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.