Besides being popular in Algeria, Deglet Nour seedlings have been harvested to Libya and Tunisia, and even the United States where they are grown in inland oases and are the chief export cultivar.

Sugar rationing helped the Deglet Nours grow in popularity in the US as a candy replacement.

[6] Several old works provide evidence that the Deglet Nour date was first grown in Algeria.

Among them are Le palmier-dattier (The Date-Palm) by Pierre Munier, L'Algérie: un siècle de colonisation française (Algeria: A Century of French Colonization) by Félix Falck, Un voyage au pays des dattes (A Trip to the Land of Dates) by Jean-Henri Fabre, and le Bulletin de la Société botanique de France (Bulletin of the French Botanical Society).

[7] This cultivar of date is grown mainly in Algeria (Tolga, Oued Righ), in Tunisia (in the areas of Jérid and Nefzaoua), and in the United States (in California, Arizona and Texas), where this cultivar was brought at the beginning of the 20th century.