Noor
Barely a hundred people in Poland carry it, and it splits almost evenly between women and men: a genuinely unisex name here. The root is Hebrew, where it means "light".
Noor Pronunciation
What Noor means
Where Noor comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Noor means light. The Polish gloss is światło, plain and exact. The name lives most fully in Arabic, where noor (نور) describes the light of a lamp and the first light of morning. Its older root runs back to Hebrew, to or, which names the same brightness.
The name travels well. Queen Noor of Jordan, born Lisa Halaby in Washington, married King Hussein in 1978 and took the name Noor Al-Hussein, read as the light of Hussein. She kept it through the rest of her public life.
On a Polish class register, Noor would stand out among the Annas and Piotrs, and it holds no fixed imieniny in the Polish calendar. A family choosing it here reaches past the local roll of saints. What the child receives is short and clear, and it means światło.
How many people are named Noor
1 in 395506 women in Poland is named Noor. 85 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3836 among female names.
Noor as a middle name
Noor is a first name for 85 women in Poland and a middle name for another 37, a 70/30 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1144th, between Madison (37) and Paige (37).
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#1142 Koralia37
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#1143 Madison37
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#1144 Noor37
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#1145 Paige37
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#1146 Selma37