Nur
Nur means światło, light, and the sound leans toward Arabic and Turkish, where it names the same thing. It stays rare in Poland: most people here have never met one, and the roughly 170 who carry it split almost evenly between women and men.
Nur Pronunciation
Nur is pronounced NOOR (/nur/).
What Nur means
Where Nur comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Nur means light. The short meaning sits in Polish as światło, and it points the name toward Arabic and Turkish tradition, where Nūr names the same thing. In Arabic the word titles the 24th sura of the Quran, An-Nur, The Light. Turkish families have used Nur for generations, alone or joined to another name.
The origin recorded here is Slavic, which sets the name in an older layer of sound. No diminutives or variant forms attach to it. Nur stands as it is, one syllable.
On a Polish class register the name reads in a glance, and at the urząd it fills a single box on the form. The meaning stays near the surface, the same wherever the name is used. It is światło. Light.
How many people are named Nur
1 in 245358 men in Poland is named Nur. 170 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2456 among male names.
Nur as a middle name
Nur is a first name for 170 men in Poland and a middle name for another 367, a 32/68 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 354th, between Narcyza (367) and Żaklina (367).
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#352 Zoja369
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#353 Narcyza367
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#354 Nur367
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#355 Żaklina367
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#356 Hanka365