Nuri
About 1,674 American babies have been named Nuri since 1975, most of them around 2019. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,173rd. About 1,700 Nuris are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 6.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Nuri boys named Nuri
Girls and boys called Nuri
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Nuri crossed from boys to girls in 2014, and has stayed there for 12 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 91% girls, and in 2025 it was 80%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 14 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,674
- Estimated living today
- 1,700
- Median age today
- 6
- Peak year
- 2019
- Best rank
- 1,119th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,173rd
- First recorded
- 1975
- Girls / boys
- 1,164 / 510
How old the living Nuris are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,674 babies given the name since 1975, about 1,700 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,400 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2019 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic
From Arabic نُورِيّ.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Nuris
- Nuri Şahin (born 1988)Turkish-German association football player
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan (born 1959)Turkish film director and producer
- Reşat Nuri Güntekin (1889–1956)Turkish writer
- Nuri as-Said (1888–1958)Iraqi politician
- Nuri Killigil (1889–1949)Turkish general and statesperson
- Nuri Abu Sahmain (born 2000)Libyan politician
- Mehmet Nuri Ersoy (born 1968)Turkish business– and statesperson
People named Nuri with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Nuri is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Nuri is most concentrated in Maryland (5.1×), Georgia (4.8×), Pennsylvania (3.8×), New Jersey (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2019
The most popular girls’ names the year Nuri peaked:
Nuri elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Nuri | 170 | 3,510th |
| Switzerland boys | Nuri | 165 | 518th |
| England and Wales boys | Nuri | 39 | 2,804th |
| Switzerland girls | Nuri | 28 | 922nd |
| France girls | Nuri | 25 | 2,224th |
| Belgium boys | Nuri | 23 | 1,125th |
| England and Wales girls | Nuri | 16 | 3,705th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Nuri: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Nuri | 159 | 0.013% | 377th |
| German girls | Switzerland | Nuri | 28 | 0.002% | 689th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Nuri | 4 | 0.001% | 591st |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Nuri | 2 | 0.054% | 12th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Nuri is most concentrated in Bern, where 0.02% of children were given it – 36 of them.
Nuri: rank by region
In 2021, Nuri was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Nuri | 882 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Nuri by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 39 | 258th |
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 555th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Nuri among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Nuri | 8 | 25 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Nuri lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 177 women called Nuri were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Nuri | 56 | 0.135 | 638 |
| Lleida | Nuri | 14 | 0.063 | 1,076 |
| Tarragona | Nuri | 11 | 0.025 | 2,007 |
| Barcelona | Nuri | 68 | 0.022 | 2,055 |
Listed in 4 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 48 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Nuri against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.