In 2025, 49 US girls were named Nura, making it the 3,238th most common girls’ name of the year, down 25 places from #3,213 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 50 girls named Nura in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,918, reached in 2019. That year also had the most girls given the name: 57. For comparison, it was #4,685 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nura in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 9 babies. In all, 904 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 321 babies named Nura.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 472 US girls were named Nura; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 57. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,801 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nora (193,922 babies since 1880), Norah (33,998 babies since 1880) and Noura (1,219 babies since 1880).