Nurul

given name · Indonesian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nurul is a given name, most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is the 25th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Indonesian and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • MYMalaysia1 in 153◐
  • IDIndonesia1 in 154
  • SGSingapore1 in 2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈699 ●

across 7 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
207 ●

566K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 144K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

NurulLatin · Indonesian●728K records
นูรูลThai · Thai●166 records
НурулCyrillic · Russian●110 records

Locally spelled Нурул in UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Nurul is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia#25591,104413K rec.—11Nurul207
MY Malaysia#7423,825142K rec.—6KNurul115
IN India—8,5042.5K rec.—260Nurul65
SG Singapore#1325,2853.2K rec.——Nurul71
TH Thailand—1,8841.2K rec.—#310,876Nurul39
PH Philippines—1,734448 rec.——Nurul11
GB United Kingdom—708358 rec.—3Nurul48
TR Türkiye—564688 rec.——Nurul13
US United States—4991K rec.1 in 667K499Nurul128
RU Russia—19764 rec.——Nurul31
SY Syria—183200 rec.——Nurul2
JP Japan—176103 rec.——Nurul27

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Indonesian728K35%
  • English628K30%
  • Malay289K14%
  • Bangla247K12%
  • Hindi77K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Indonesian728,20635%
English628,27930%
Malay288,53014%
Bangla246,86012%
Hindi76,8774%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Nurul is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name637K records spelled Nurul8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Bangladesh, United States, India

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ñürûl, Nurül, Ńurul, Ñùrül

  • Bangla given name345K records spelled Nurul49 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Bangla, Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Noorul, Narul, নুরুল, Noorool, Nurool

  • Spanish given name9.2K records spelled Nurul6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, India, Singapore

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Ñürül, Nûrúl

  • Swahili given name6.0K records spelled Nurul5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, India, United States, Singapore

    Also written Nurül, Nürül

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

0200400600190019201940196019802000419 · 1984

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Nurul in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2015
Yearrecords
18992
19131
19162
19182
19191
19206
19211
19225
19235
19243
19254
19262
19279
19282
19296
19308
19318
193214
19337
193415
193523
193612
193736
193829
193934
194057
194148
194279
194341
194480
194581
194683
1947132
194881
194990
1950136
1951153
1952183
1953115
1954153
1955170
1956171
1957235
1958207
1959224
1960231
1961207
1962334
1963252
1964266
1965271
1966274
1967387
1968284
1969267
1970356
1971290
1972374
1973341
1974322
1975309
1976357
1977286
1978343
1979308
1980217
1981328
1982368
1983380
1984419
1985377
1986268
1987373
1988276
1989310
1990332
1991322
1992363
1993369
1994268
1995223
1996107
199796
199862
199916
20011
200876
20091
201023
201126
201217
20136
201498
201517

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 94 years between 1899–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18501900195020002050Nurul Amin, b. 1893ABM Nurul Alam, b. 1929Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun, b. 1950Nurul Kabir, b. 1960Nurul Arifin, b. 1966Nurul Izzah Anwar, b. 1980Janna Nick, b. 1995Ghaida Nurul Ghaniyu, b. 1998Savira Nurul Husnia, b. 2003

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 35 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Nurul
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
MY Malaysiadata.gov.my — Baby Name Popularity Dashboard (HTML-embedded JSON)—6K—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—566#7,975
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020499#18,336
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1984419—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1967387—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1983380—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1985377—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1972374—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1987373—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1993369—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1982368—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1992363—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 249 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nurul?
We estimate roughly 699 people bear Nurul (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Nurul have the most bearers?
Nurul is most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is most often spelled nurul.
How common is Nurul compared with other names?
In Indonesia, Nurul is the 25th most common given name of 232,466 given names recorded there.
Is Nurul a male or female name?
Nurul is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Nurul” — the 25th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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