Naomi

A girls’ name of Hebrew origin, meaning pleasantness.

Babies a year
3,828
the US, 2017
Rarity
Common
among names in use
US popularity
#47
down from #44
UK popularity
#166
296 babies · up from #204

How Naomi has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#36#60#83201520202025#47

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#75
2016#75
2017#69
2018#64
2019#59
2020#52
2021#54
2022#46
2023#44
2024#44
2025#47

Naomi by the numbers

In 2025, 296 babies in England and Wales were named Naomi. In the US, 3,828 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.

At its height, in 1915, about 1 in 660 American girls born that year was called Naomi.

0%0.1%0.2%18801900192019401960198020001915
Naomi as a share of American girls born, 1880 to 2008, at five year intervals. Source: US Social Security Administration.

Names that come from Naomi

Forms of Naomi in other languages, names built from it, and names that mean a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.

  • Noemipleasantness; a form of Naomi369 in the US (2017)
  • Nohemipleasantness; a form of Naomi34 in the US (2017)
  • Noemiepleasantness; a form of Noemi or Naomi11 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Noemypleasantness; a form of Naomi21 in the US (2017)
  • Naomiipleasantness; a variant spelling of Naomi9 in the US (2017)

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Naomi. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Nyomipleasantness; a modern respelling of Naomi194 in the US (2017)
  • Nahomipleasantness; variant spelling of naomi80 in the US (2017)
  • Naomypleasantness; a spelling variant of Naomi66 in the US (2017)
  • Nayomipleasantness; a respelling of Naomi64 in the US (2017)
  • Naiomipleasantness; a form of Naomi44 in the US (2017)
  • Niomipleasantness; a form of Naomi44 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Naomi

Names that are said the same way as Naomi, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Nahomypleasantness; a spelling variant of Naomi77 in the US (2017)
  • Naomiepleasantness; sweetness; variant spelling of naomi42 in the US (2017)
  • Nayomie8 in the US (2017)
  • Nahomie5 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Naomi

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