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Nor name meaning

“light”

Letters
3
Syllables
1
First letter
N
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♂♀ Unisex
Peak 2010s: 2.2%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s2.2%
109

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Nor

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: NMeaning lightArabic origin

Nor is a name element from Arabic meaning 'light', a spelling of Nur.

What does Nor mean?

Light

In Malay: cahaya

#Light

Sources (1)

About the name Nor

Nor is a Malaysian spelling of nur, from the Arabic word nūr (نور), 'light'. It is commonly the first element of compound names such as Nor Aisyah or Nor Hisham. Other spellings are Noor and Nur.

Gender♂♀ Boys and girls
OriginArabic
Rootن و ر · n-w-r
SyllablesNor
Other spellingsNur
First letterMalay Names starting with N
Arabic scriptنور

Nor in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
Girl: 727 · 2.2%
People registered with Nor as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Other spellings in the JPN data: Nur (1990s 4,203 girl, 2000s 17,866 girl, 2010s 23,159 girl)

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: نور · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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