Nor
given name · Malay · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nor is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is the 9th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Malay and Indonesian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from sabine Nero ‘hero’ or Greek aner ‘man’.
- MYMalaysia1 in 161◐
- SGSingapore1 in 3.2K
- IDIndonesia1 in 4.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈38K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 141 ●
- 1 in 2.9K ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
366K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Nur in IN India, BD Bangladesh, US United States and 4 more, Noor in PK Pakistan, Nuur in NL Netherlands and Nar in TN Tunisia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
from sabine Nero ‘hero’ or Greek aner ‘man’
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #9 | 404,667 | 217K rec. | — | 4.2K | Nor | 141 |
| IN India | — | 215,726 | 84K rec. | — | 4.6K | Nur | 82 |
| BD Bangladesh | #396 | 22,807 | 22K rec. | — | listed | Nur | 112 |
| ID Indonesia | #379 | 20,111 | 14K rec. | — | — | Nor | 108 |
| FR France | — | 18,940 | 0 rec. | 1 in 3.6K | 19K | — | 1 |
| PK Pakistan | #470 | 9,091 | 265 rec. | — | 1 | Noor | 43 |
| US United States | — | 8,260 | 7.6K rec. | 1 in 40K | 8.3K | Nur | 119 |
| PH Philippines | — | 6,431 | 2.8K rec. | — | — | Nor | 26 |
| ES Spain | — | 4,925△ | 459 rec. | 1 in 10K | 4.9K | Nor | 24 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,570△ | 771 rec. | 1 in 2.9K | 3.6K | Nur | 14 |
| SG Singapore | #187 | 3,405 | 3K rec. | — | — | Nor | 58 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 2,416 | 3.3K rec. | — | — | Nur | 32 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Malay322K59%
- Indonesian68K12%
- English59K11%
- Arabic20K4%
- Spanish11K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Malay | 321,666 | 59% |
| Indonesian | 67,834 | 12% |
| English | 59,276 | 11% |
| Arabic | 19,959 | 4% |
| Spanish | 10,545 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Nor is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, And... not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Norwegian.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, jail, prison; imprisonment
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovenian, crazy, insane, mad
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, narrow strait
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 67 |
| 2000 | 82 |
| 2001 | 92 |
| 2002 | 105 |
| 2003 | 113 |
| 2004 | 121 |
| 2005 | 132 |
| 2006 | 146 |
| 2007 | 160 |
| 2008 | 169 |
| 2009 | 182 |
| 2010 | 191 |
| 2011 | 199 |
| 2012 | 208 |
| 2013 | 214 |
| 2014 | 221 |
| 2015 | 238 |
| 2016 | 257 |
| 2017 | 268 |
| 2018 | 276 |
| 2019 | 272 |
| 2020 | 274 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- A. C. Norb. 1903CZCzechoslovak writer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 56 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 791 | #380 |
| MY Malaysia | data.gov.my — Baby Name Popularity Dashboard (HTML-embedded JSON) | — | 727 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 705 | #3,636 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 602 | #2,433 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 566 | #1,971 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 486 | #47,112 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 396 | #3,658 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 386 | #53,538 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 325 | #58,397 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 299 | #18,901 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 298 | #3,569 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 276 | #3,777 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 131 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nor?
- We estimate roughly 38 thousand people bear Nor (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nor have the most bearers?
- Nor is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled nor.
- How common is Nor compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Nor is the 9th most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
- Is Nor a male or female name?
- Nor is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Nor mean?
- Recorded meaning: from sabine Nero ‘hero’ or Greek aner ‘man’
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nor” — the 9th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.