Noor
#659 for girls in 2025, 435 births · #2,884 for boys in 2025, 43 births
Given to girls 88.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 435 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,276since 1979
Noor over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #659 | 435 | #2,884 | 43 |
| 2024 | #710 | 395 | #3,161 | 38 |
| 2023 | #790 | 356 | #2,769 | 46 |
| 2022 | #773 | 368 | #2,517 | 54 |
| 2021 | #854 | 321 | #2,918 | 42 |
| 2020 | #886 | 301 | #3,202 | 35 |
| 2019 | #930 | 284 | #3,259 | 35 |
| 2018 | #855 | 317 | #2,893 | 41 |
| 2017 | #875 | 313 | #3,123 | 37 |
| 2016 | #902 | 308 | #3,358 | 33 |
| 2015 | #989 | 273 | #2,864 | 41 |
| 2014 | #1,018 | 256 | #4,138 | 24 |
| 2013 | #1,071 | 231 | #4,621 | 20 |
| 2012 | #1,124 | 220 | #3,894 | 26 |
| 2011 | #1,033 | 241 | #3,695 | 28 |
| 2010 | #1,082 | 230 | #3,072 | 37 |
| 2009 | #1,132 | 223 | #3,639 | 29 |
| 2008 | #1,090 | 238 | #3,561 | 30 |
| 2007 | #1,217 | 205 | #2,868 | 41 |
| 2006 | #1,102 | 227 | #3,306 | 32 |
| 2005 | #1,145 | 203 | #2,493 | 45 |
| 2004 | #1,127 | 202 | #4,005 | 22 |
| 2003 | #1,060 | 212 | #3,838 | 22 |
| 2002 | #1,054 | 203 | #3,450 | 25 |
| 2001 | #1,032 | 209 | #3,410 | 25 |
| 2000 | #1,041 | 202 | #4,785 | 15 |
| 1999 | #1,088 | 183 | #2,510 | 35 |
| 1998 | #1,392 | 123 | #4,197 | 16 |
| 1997 | #1,412 | 118 | #4,668 | 13 |
| 1996 | #1,337 | 127 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | #1,598 | 94 | #3,693 | 17 |
| 1994 | #1,624 | 93 | #4,094 | 15 |
| 1993 | #1,590 | 96 | #3,501 | 18 |
| 1992 | #1,844 | 77 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #1,677 | 88 | #4,476 | 12 |
| 1990 | #2,317 | 54 | #4,407 | 12 |
| 1989 | #2,304 | 51 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #2,867 | 36 | #3,915 | 12 |
| 1987 | #3,331 | 27 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,890 | 21 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #3,084 | 29 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #3,527 | 23 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #3,949 | 19 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,347 | 17 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #5,525 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Noor! It came in at #8,061, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1980, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
See more about Noor
- 51 spots since 2024 (#710 → #659)
- 227 spots since 2020 (#886 → #659)
- 330 spots since 2015 (#989 → #659)
- Biggest jump: 87 spots in 2016 (#989 → #902)
- Biggest drop: 75 spots in 2019 (#855 → #930)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2025 at #659 (435 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2015–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,695 girls born in 2025 were named Noor (0.03%)
- 32.3% of all girls named Noor (2,673) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 7 | #8,061 (1979) | #8,061 |
| 1980s | 243 | #2,304 (1989) | #4,073 |
| 1990s | 1,053 | #1,088 (1999) | #1,588 |
| 2000s | 2,124 | #1,032 (2001) | #1,100 |
| 2010s | 2,673 | #855 (2018) | #988 |
| 2020s | 2,176 | #659 (2025) | #779 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Noor in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 13,803 of them was named Noor, which outranked 91.6% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,328Doris128
- #1,328Elsie128
- #1,328Magaly128
- #1,337Noor127
- #1,337Adeline127
- #1,337Bryn127
- #1,337Franchesca127
- #1,343Addie126
- #1,343Connor126
- #1,343Jamia126
Tied with 5 names at #1,337; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 189,430 of them was named Noor, which outranked 47.5% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,187Zayn11
- #5,187Zeeshan11
- #5,187Zerek11
- #5,535Noor10
- #5,535Aaronmichael10
- #5,535Acie10
- #5,535Afton10
- #5,982Aadil9
- #5,982Aarion9
- #5,982Abdias9
Tied with 446 names at #5,535; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.