How popular is the baby name Nour in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Find out using the graph below! Plus, check out all the blog posts that mention the name Nour.
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According to Spain’s Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, the most popular baby names in the country in 2019 were (again) Lucia and Hugo.
Here are Spain’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2019:
Girl Names
Lucia, 3,621 baby girls
Sofia, 3,505
Martina, 3,172
Maria, 3,165
Julia, 2,600
Paula, 2,498
Emma, 2,362
Daniela, 2,315
Valeria, 2,248
Alba, 2,097
Boy Names
Hugo, 3,536 baby boys
Martin, 3,256
Lucas, 3,185
Mateo, 3,160
Leo, 2,960
Daniel, 2,958
Alejandro, 2,937
Pablo, 2,868
Manuel, 2,460
Alvaro, 2,279
Both top 10 lists include the same 10 names as the year before, but in a different order.
The top names in the Basque Country specifically were Ane and Markel. (Ane is a form of Anna, whereas Markel comes from the Roman name Martialis.)
And did you know that Spain has two autonomous cities on the coast of Africa? They’re Melilla and Ceuta. The top names in Melilla were Amira/Nour (tie) and Mohamed, while the top names in Ceuta were Yasmin and Amir/Mohamed (tie).
Here are the top names within each of the three regions:
Region
Girl Names
Boy Names
Flanders (58% of Belgians) Language: Dutch
1. Louise 2. Emma 3. Marie 4. Elise 5. Ella
1. Lucas 2. Liam 3. Arthur 4. Louis 5. Noah
Wallonia (32% of Belgians) Language: mostly French
1. Léa 2. Lucie 3. Alice 4. Emma 5. Chloé
1. Louis 2. Hugo 3. Nathan 4. Noah 5. Gabriel
Brussels (10% of Belgians) Languages: Dutch/French
1. Nour 2. Lina 3. Sofia 4. Sara 5. Yasmine
1. Adam 2. Mohamed 3. Gabriel 4. Rayan 5. David
I find it interesting that Olivia, the 3rd-most-popular baby girl name in the country overall, didn’t hit the top 5 in any of the three regions. It came in 6th in both Flanders and Wallonia and 11th in Brussels.
In the girls’ top 10, Lena replaced Fien (short for Jozefien, the Dutch form of Josephine).
In the boys’ top 10, Seppe and Jules replaced Lars and Alexander.
I would have guessed that Seppe was a diminutive of Joseph (akin to the German name Sepp). According to a Behind the Name contributor, though, Seppe is a West Frisian name that can be traced back to Sibe, a “Frisian short form of masculine names that have sigu or sigis for a first element” and a second element begins with the letter b (e.g., Sibald, Sibert).
About 32% of Belgians live in the southern region, Wallonia, where the official language is French (and, in some areas, German). Here are the top 10 baby names for Wallonia:
About 10% of Belgians live in the Brussels Capital Region, where the official languages are Dutch and French. Here are the top top 10 baby names for Brussels:
In the girls’ top 10, Malak and Anna replaced Ines and Louise. In the boy’s top 10, Amir, Lucas and Yanis replaced Ayoub, Nathan and Anas.
Morocco World News notes that “heavy immigration from Morocco and other Muslim countries has left its traces, as Mohamed has been the most common male name in the Brussels Region recently.” Mohamed was the #1 boy name in Brussels from the late 1990s until 2011, in fact. And the same wave of immigration has given a big boost to many other Arabic names (Amir, Bilal, Hamza, Imran, Malak, Nour, Rayan, Yousra, etc.) within the last few decades.
Please note that I did include names in the gray area between one syllable and two syllables. The deciding factor on these particular names will be your own interpretation/accent, so be sure to test the names out loud before making any final decisions. (“Hayle,” for instance — would you say it like Hale, or like Hailey? Or “Rise” — is it rize, or ree-sah?)
Many of these names also happen to be unisex, so they appear on the One-Syllable Boy Names list as well.
What’s your favorite one-syllable girl name?
[Latest Update: June 2021]
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