Nouran
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- noo-RAAN
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
Nouran is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “light, radiance”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
What does Nouran mean?
Arabic: built on nur 'light'
“light, radiance”
Built on nur, the Arabic word for light; Nuran is the Turkish spelling.
Is Nouran a girl's or a boy's name?
Nouran is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nouran in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 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, 4 girls in the UK were named Nouran, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2017, with 6 girls.
2025 had more girls named Nouran than any year since 2017.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Nouran in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,774 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 1 | #7,592 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
Nicknames for Nouran
- Nour 57 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Nouran
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayah, Nusaybah, Safa, Hafsa, Zainab, Hiba, Rehmat, Amal, Noor, Ayra, Rahma, Khadija
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, “Nouran: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nouran, updated 20 October 2026.