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With 1 596 302 bearers, Nur is the 4th most common name in Indonesia (2014 Data). With 780 234 bearers, Nur is the 4th most common name in Malaysia (2014 Data).Source: https://forebears.io/forenames/nur
Nur is also commonly used in Iran, in Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan, by the Kurdish people, among Bengali Muslims, and in Somalia (where it is also spelled as Nuur).Scripts: نور (Persian), نور (Pashto), نور (Kurdish Sorani), নুর (Bengali)Bengali Pronunciation: NOOR.
9/11/2020 CorrectionNur is also Persian, Pashto, Kurdish (where it is also spelled as Nûr), Bengali, Somali (where it is also spelled as Nuur), Bosnian, Albanian, and Abkhaz. Nur is also in use in Georgia and Armenia - and not just by Arab emigrants.Scripts: نور (Persian), نور (Pashto), نور (Kurdish Sorani), নুর (Bengali), ნურ (Georgian), Նուր (Armenian)Bengali Pronunciation: NOORBosnian Pronunciation: NOORAlbanian Pronunciation: NOORArmenian Pronunciation: NOOR.
This is also the usual Turkish spelling of Noor. [noted -ed]
Where I come from, most Muslim girls bear this in their name. For instance, you have such combinations as Nur Shakila, Nur Iman, etc.
However, their bearers go by the second name, and not "Nur" (for the examples above, they'd go by Shakila and Iman respectively). I wonder why, sometimes.

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