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Name element

Nurul name meaning

“light of”

Letters
5
Syllables
2
First letter
N
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 2000s: 12.6%
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–
2000s12.6%
2010s7.7%
20

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Nurul

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: NMeaning lightArabic origin

Nurul is a girl's name element from Arabic meaning 'light of', usually followed by another name element.

What does Nurul mean?

Light of

In Malay: cahaya kepada

#Light

Sources (1)

About the name Nurul

Nurul is a name element from Arabic nūr al-, 'light of', usually followed by another element such as Nurul Huda or Nurul Ain. Nūr means light. According to JPN it peaked in the 2000s with 6,016 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginArabic
Rootن و ر · n-w-r
SyllablesNu-rul
First letterMalay Names starting with N
Arabic scriptنور

Nurul 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: 6,016 · 12.6%
2010s
Girl: 2,589 · 7.7%
People registered with Nurul 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 Nurul

Sources

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

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