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I am very nitpicky of transliterations of (mainly) Asian (specially Persian, Arabic and South Asian) names that use "oo" for the [u] sound (such is the case with this one) and "ee" for the [i] sound (as in Fareeha and Yasmeen, for instance). It feels to me very English-centric, because I personally have never seen any other language (that did not have contact with English through colonization) use "ee" for [i] and "oo" for [u]. So yeah, Nilufar is an infinitely better name than Niloofar for that. But if you're of Persian descent (or just like Persian names) living in an English-speaking country, it's an okay name if you don't want people mispronouncing your kid's name, for instance. (It's not personal to the English language though, I personally also dislike "ou" for [u] because it feels French-centric — the more similar the name is to the representation of the sound in the IPA, the better to me. But to each their own.)
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The proper Persian form or transcription appears to be Nilufar:
- https://quranicnames.com/nilufar/ (in English)
- https://imya.com/name/11830 (in Russian)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilufar (in English)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niloufar (in English; features more variant transcriptions)
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B1#Persian (in English; also check out the derived terms)
The -u- in Nilufar is pronounced exactly the same as the -oo- in Niloofar and the -ou- in Niloufar, so I suppose those two names are more like variant transcriptions of Nilufar.
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- https://quranicnames.com/nilufar/ (in English)
- https://imya.com/name/11830 (in Russian)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilufar (in English)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niloufar (in English; features more variant transcriptions)
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B1#Persian (in English; also check out the derived terms)
The -u- in Nilufar is pronounced exactly the same as the -oo- in Niloofar and the -ou- in Niloufar, so I suppose those two names are more like variant transcriptions of Nilufar.
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