Aynur
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- eye-NOOR
- Origin
- Turkish
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,344 for girls
Aynur is a girls' name of Turkish origin, meaning “moonlight”. In 2025 it ranked 2,344th for girls in the UK (12 babies).
What does Aynur mean?
Turkish: Turkish name of ay 'moon' and nur 'light'
“moonlight”
A Turkish name joining ay, 'moon', with nur, 'light', a word Turkish took from Arabic.
Is Aynur a girl's or a boy's name?
Aynur is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aynur in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,344th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 23,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 229% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were named Aynur, making it the 2,344th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th.
2025 had the most girls named Aynur of any year since it first appeared, in 2011.
Half of all the girls named Aynur in the UK since 1996 were born between 2017 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,276th in England and Wales.
Aynur in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #2,344 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 7 | #3,388 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 1 | #7,629 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
Names like Aynur
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayah, Safa, Ayla, Ayra, Zainab, Abeeha, Hafsa, Nusaybah, Hiba, Amal, Rahma, Amira
Names related to Aynur
More Turkish names
Aylin, Alara, Ayda, Orhan, Ayzel, Kaya, Aydin, Aslan, Eren, Evren, Ayaz, Ela, Aylah, Aleyna, Deniz, Demir
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Aynur: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aynur, updated 20 October 2026.