girls:
7.4k births since 1979
#1888 (67th percentile)
boys:
996 births since 1980
#3596 (22nd percentile)
overall:
8.4k births since 1979
#2941 (62nd percentile)
The name Noor is the #2,941 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,437 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 62.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 62.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,888 (67.0% percentile) for all time with 7,441 births since 1979. For boys, it ranks #3,596 (21.5% percentile) for all time with 996 births since 1980.
Noor first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (1979 for girls and 1980 for boys).
The name Noor has been given predominantly to girls, with 88.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 88.5% of babies named Noor were girls.
For girls, Noor reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 36.8% percentile (ranked #606) with 205 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 205 births per million (ranked 36.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2007, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Noor is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #616 (35.0% percentile) with 202 births per million.
For boys, Noor reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 5.3% percentile (ranked #875) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 29 births per million (ranked 5.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Noor ranks #870 for boys (4.5% percentile) with 25 births per million, which is 87.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Noor".
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Our model is 89.5% confident that Noor is pronounced as noor, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is nor, at 10.5% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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