Noori
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- NOO-ree
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Noori is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “luminous, of light”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies) and 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Noori mean?
Arabic: from nur 'light', via Urdu
“luminous, of light”
Built on nur, the Arabic word for light, and used in Urdu and Persian too.
Is Noori a girl's or a boy's name?
Noori is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK and 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Noori in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 25% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Noori, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2018, with 4 girls.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Noori in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
How popular is Noori in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Noori, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 2008.
Half of all the girls named Noori in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Noori in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
Nicknames for Noori
- Noor 287 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Noori
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Remi, Ayah, Minha, Amal, Nusaybah, Safa, Rumi, Rehmat, Yusra, Hafsa, Ayat, Noura
Names related to Noori
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), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Noori: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/noori, updated 20 October 2026.