Nurah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- NOO-ra
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,206 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Nurah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “light”. In 2025 it ranked 2,206th for girls in the UK (13 babies) and 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Nurah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Nura
“light”
From the Arabic nur, 'light', the word behind Noor and Nour.
Meaning borrowed from Nura.
Is Nurah a girl's or a boy's name?
Nurah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the UK and 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nurah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,206th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 13 about 1 in 21,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 22% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 13 girls in the UK were named Nurah, making it the 2,206th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,766th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 15 girls.
Half of all the girls named Nurah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 212 girls in the UK were given Nurah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #249, up from #2,206 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,137th in England and Wales.
Nurah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #2,206 |
| 2024 | 14 | #2,057 |
| 2023 | 12 | #2,329 |
| 2022 | 9 | #2,805 |
| 2021 | 15 | #1,981 |
| 2020 | 9 | #2,766 |
| 2019 | 10 | #2,590 |
| 2018 | 13 | #2,198 |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,774 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
How popular is Nurah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 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, 8 girls in the US were named Nurah, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 1980.
Half of all the girls named Nurah in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 212 girls in the US were given Nurah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,020, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
Nurah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,625 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 12 | #8,961 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,952 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,390 |
Names like Nurah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah, Safa, Ayah, Zainab, Hafsa, Ruqayyah, Aaliyah, Izzah, Sumayyah, Rahma, Hiba, Safaa
Other spellings of Nurah
Names related to Nurah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
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, “Nurah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nurah, updated 20 October 2026.