Nuriddin
An Arabic name meaning "light of faith". Fewer than a hundred men in Poland carry it, and the records show no newborns given it since 2000, so most Poles have never met one.
Nuriddin Pronunciation
What Nuriddin means
Where Nuriddin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Nuriddin comes from Arabic, built from `nur`, meaning light, and `din`, meaning faith or religion. Together they give the short meaning that follows the name everywhere: light of faith. The final `-ddin` sits in a large family of Arabic names, next to Salahuddin and Shamsuddin, where the same word for religion closes the compound.
History gives the name a clear bearer. Nur ad-Din Zangi ruled Syria in the twelfth century, from 1146 to 1174, and Muslim chroniclers praised him as a just and pious prince. The spelling Nuriddin is one of the forms the name took as it moved east through Persian and Central Asian speech.
In Poland it is rare. A teacher reading a class register in Białystok might meet it once and pause on the doubled `d`.
The name has no Polish diminutive of its own and no cross-gender variant. What it carries is the plain sense of its two parts. Światło religii, light of religion.
How many people are named Nuriddin
1 in 222356 men in Poland is named Nuriddin. 96 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3545 among male names.