The NOOR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,204	20484	0	4
United States (1880 census)	19	75372	0	0
Change since 1880	+1185	+54888	+N/A	+N/A
Other Countries
Australia	74	18433	0	5
United Kingdom	1,049	5059	0.002	23

Top States for NOOR by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	161	14139	0.000	5
New York	140	12463	0.001	7
Minnesota	123	5354	0.003	25
Texas	85	16422	0.000	4
Illinois	61	20044	0.000	5
Top States for NOOR by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	123	5354	0.003	25
Washington DC	11	4842	0.002	19
South Dakota	9	12980	0.001	12
Maryland	49	10367	0.001	9
Maine	10	12785	0.001	8

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called NOOR live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called NOOR represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called NOOR in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a NOOR by picking someone at random in Minnesota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of NOOR

Religious origin: Muslim

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Ethnic distribution of NOOR in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	420	34.88
White (Caucasian)	354	29.4
Mixed Race	211	17.52
Black/African American	201	16.69
White (Hispanic)	13	1.08
Native American/Alaskan	5	0.42

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the NOOR surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to NOOR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NOOR.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.