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Nurul Ain name meaning

“light of the eye”

Letters
8
Syllables
4
First letter
N
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 2000s: 5.7%
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–
2000s5.7%
2010s–

Malay Names: NMeaning lightArabic origin

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

What does Nurul Ain mean?

Light of the eye

In Malay: cahaya mata

#Light#Love

Sources (2)

About the name Nurul Ain

Nurul is nur 'light' joined with the article al-, while ʿayn means eye. Together they mean 'light of the eye', a phrase of endearment for a child. Another spelling is Noorulain. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 2000s with 2,736 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
SyllablesNu-rul A-in
PartsNurul + Ain
First letterMalay Names starting with N
Arabic scriptنور العين

Nurul Ain 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
Girl: 2,736 · 5.7%
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Nurul Ain 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)

Sources

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

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