Nurul
Origin
Malay
Syllables
2
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
light of (Arabic nur al-); grammatically it wants a completion, so it comes paired, as in Nurul Ain, light of the eye, or Nurul Huda, light of guidance
Popularity, 1890–2024
Nurul does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
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