# Naomi (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/naomi/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | “my pleasantness”, “pleasantness”, “my”, “of me” |
| Pronunciation | /neɪˈoʊmi/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | Omie |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 191,837 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 290 / 191,547 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 12,495, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Hebrew נָעֳמִי (no'omí, literally “my pleasantness”), from נועם / נֹעַם (nó'am, “pleasantness”) + ־ִי (-í, “my, of me”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3,195 | 93 |
| 2012 | 3,432 | 79 |
| 2013 | 3,455 | 86 |
| 2014 | 3,716 | 80 |
| 2015 | 3,775 | 75 |
| 2016 | 3,808 | 75 |
| 2017 | 3,866 | 69 |
| 2018 | 3,855 | 64 |
| 2019 | 3,956 | 59 |
| 2020 | 4,120 | 52 |
| 2021 | 4,275 | 54 |
| 2022 | 4,503 | 46 |
| 2023 | 4,502 | 44 |
| 2024 | 4,621 | 44 |
| 2025 | 4,644 | 47 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 6 | 5,998 |
| 1984 | 7 | 5,392 |
| 1986 | 8 | 5,182 |
| 1987 | 5 | 7,770 |
| 1990 | 6 | 7,803 |
| 1991 | 6 | 7,935 |
| 2001 | 5 | 11,771 |
| 2004 | 8 | 8,688 |
| 2007 | 5 | 13,788 |
| 2012 | 5 | 13,619 |
| 2015 | 5 | 13,446 |
| 2016 | 6 | 11,707 |
| 2017 | 6 | 11,756 |
| 2023 | 6 | 11,828 |
| 2025 | 5 | 13,310 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 405 | 140 |
| 2012 | 409 | 139 |
| 2013 | 376 | 140 |
| 2014 | 379 | 147 |
| 2015 | 344 | 158 |
| 2016 | 330 | 168 |
| 2017 | 318 | 171 |
| 2018 | 299 | 178 |
| 2019 | 305 | 166 |
| 2020 | 267 | 185 |
| 2021 | 313 | 165 |
| 2022 | 288 | 177 |
| 2023 | 273 | 185 |
| 2024 | 244 | 204 |
| 2025 | 296 | 166 |

## In other languages

- Armenian: Նոյեմի
- Dutch: Naomi, Noemi
- French: Noémie
- Hebrew: נָעֳמִי
- Hungarian: Noémi
- Italian: Noemi, Naomi
- Japanese: 真実, 直美, ナオミ
- Portuguese: Noêmia, Noémia
- Russian: Нао́ми
- Spanish: Noemí

## People named Naomi

- Naomi Watts, English actress (born 1968)
- Naomi Campbell, British model (born 1970)
- Naomi Klein, Canadian author and activist (born 1970)
- Naomi Scott, British actress and singer (born 1993)
- Naomie Harris, British actress
- Naomi Wolf, American feminist and journalist (born 1962)
- Aja Naomi King, American film and television actress
- Naomi Novik, American writer
- Naomi Girma, American soccer player
- Naomi, American professional wrestler
- Naomi Ackie, English actress (born 1991)
- Naomi Judd, American singer and actress (1946–2022)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.