Nur

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Nur: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Nur: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #747 in 2013, and it stood at #1,160 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
50times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#747highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#869
1997	#850
1998	#1259
1999	#1805
2000	#1250
2001	#1520
2002	#962
2003	#1224
2004	#1383
2005	#1012
2006	#976
2007	#1502
2008	#1815
2009	#1837
2010	#1332
2011	#1327
2012	#1649
2013	#1707
2014	#1456
2015	#1362
2016	#1635
2017	#1628
2018	#1343
2019	#1497
2020	#1939
2021	#1351
2022	#1282
2023	#1206
2024	#1160

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2013: #747 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1707 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #869 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2008–2013
Highest recorded position: #747 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2013 (recorded 2008–2013).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1160 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Nur appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 584 births with the name.

Nur across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Nur's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#2020 (1996)	#4270 (2024)	18 of 29	77 (1996–2024)	8 (2020)
England and Wales · Girls	#869 (1996)	#850 (1997)	#1160 (2024)	29 of 29	584 (1996–2024)	29 (2006)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#750 (2008)	#747 (2013)	#747 (2013)	3 of 6	11 (2008–2013)	4 (2008)

Nur by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Nur in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	75	4 of 10	19
2000s	183	10 of 10	18
2010s	208	10 of 10	21
2020sbusiest	118	5 of 10	24

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 24 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Nur appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #747 in Republic of Ireland in 2013.

Nur's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1160	29	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#4270	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1206	27	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3112	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1282	25	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2755	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1351	23	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3990	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1939	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2404	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1497	20	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1343	24	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3959	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1628	19	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1635	19	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1362	24	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1456	21	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1707	17	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1649	18	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1327	23	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1332	23	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1837	14	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1815	14	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1502	17	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#976	29	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1012	25	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1383	16	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1224	18	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#962	23	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1520	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1250	15	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1805	9	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1259	15	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#850	26	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#869	25	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #747, first reached in 2013.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 29 births, registered in England and Wales in 2006.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2008, and 12 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aseel · #747, 24y
Eliska · #747, 24y
Ella-Mai · #747, 24y
Laina · #747, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aseel · #747, 24y
Eliska · #747, 24y
Ella-Mai · #747, 24y
Haylee · #747, 20y

Nur was ranked #747 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2013. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Nur and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Nur without appearing here.

Nur moved ahead of

Jordan Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1837 and #1837 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1332 and #4012.
Brent Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3959 and #3412 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #2404 and #4608.
Susan Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1628 and #1512 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1343 and #3518.
Rachael Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1939 and #1939 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1351 and #3519.

Moved ahead of Nur

Hunter Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2470 and #2857 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #4432 and #1085.
Rune Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3959 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3937 and #2104.
Tadhg Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2020 and #2357 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #2859 and #1174.
Malin Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3959 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3937 and #2728.

Moved the opposite way to Nur

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Nur went from #2020 to #4270 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Nur went from #2020 to #4270 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Nur went from #2020 to #4270 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Nur went from #2020 to #4270 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Nur

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Nur went from #2020 to #4270 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Nur went from #2020 to #4270 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Nur went from #2020 to #4270 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Nur went from #2020 to #4270 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #747 in Republic of Ireland in 2013. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Nur

Nur at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Nur across 3 official records

Nur by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Nur appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Nur across 3 official records

Nur by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Nur appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Nur

Nur and the names beside it

Nur moved ahead of

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