Hoor
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- HOOR
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,690 for girls
Hoor is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “maidens of paradise”. In 2025 it ranked 1,690th for girls in the UK (18 babies).
What does Hoor mean?
Arabic: from Arabic hur
“maidens of paradise”
In the Qur'an the hur are companions in paradise described as having wide, beautiful eyes.
Is Hoor a girl's or a boy's name?
Hoor is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hoor in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,690th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 18 about 1 in 15,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 264% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 18 girls in the UK were named Hoor, making it the 1,690th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th.
2025 had the most girls named Hoor of any year since it first appeared, in 2000.
Half of all the girls named Hoor in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,639th in England and Wales.
Hoor in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #1,690 |
| 2024 | 16 | #1,881 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,728 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2017 | 9 | #2,864 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 8 | #3,031 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 8 | #2,909 |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 1 | #5,280 |
Names like Hoor
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Hafsa, Hiba, Noor, Ayah, Zainab, Nusaybah, Huda, Reem, Abeeha, Rahma, Khadija
Names related to Hoor
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
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, “Hoor: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hoor, updated 20 October 2026.