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Noraini name meaning

“light of the eye”

Letters: 7
Syllables: 4
First letter: N
Origin: Arabic
Category: Malay Names
Gender: ♀ Girl

Arabic scriptنور العين

Peak 1980s: 16.2%
of the girl top-10 total

JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Decade	girl
1940s	–
1950s	–
1960s	9.5%
1970s	13.3%
1980s	16.2%
1990s	–
2000s	–
2010s	–

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Noraini

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: N Meaning light Arabic origin

Noraini is a girl's name from Arabic meaning 'light of the eye'.

What does Noraini mean?

Light of the eye

In Malay: cahaya mata

#Light #Love

Sources (2)

About the name Noraini

Noraini combines Arabic nur, 'light', and ayn, 'eye', and is also written Nuraini. Nur is an element widely used in Malay names. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1970s with 6,705 baby girls.

Gender	♀ Girl
Origin	Arabic
Syllables	No-ra-i-ni
First letter	Malay Names starting with N

Arabic script	نور العين

Noraini in official JPN data

1940s: not in the top 10
1950s: not in the top 10
1960s: Girl: 6,297 · 9.5%
1970s: Girl: 6,705 · 13.3%
1980s: Girl: 6,056 · 16.2%
1990s: not in the top 10
2000s: not in the top 10
2010s: not in the top 10

People registered with Noraini 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)

Compound names with Noraini

Sources

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

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