Nouf
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- NOOF
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,409 for girls
Nouf is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “highest point; summit”. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies).
What does Nouf mean?
Arabic: Arabic nawf, a name popular in the Gulf
“highest point; summit”
Is Nouf a girl's or a boy's name?
Nouf is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nouf in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 62% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Nouf, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th.
2025 had the most girls named Nouf of any year since the records began in 1996.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.
Nouf in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,409 |
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 1 | #7,881 |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 1 | #5,054 |
Names like Nouf
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah, Safa, Ayah, Zainab, Reem, Hafsa, Hiba, Abeeha, Rahma, Noor, Rahaf, Safaa
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, “Nouf: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nouf, updated 20 October 2026.