Naomi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A name of Hebrew origin meaning 'pleasantness', often associated with a gentle and agreeable nature (Biblical Names Compiled Database)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 73 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/naɪˈəʊmi/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Naomi is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Paraguay it is the 16th most common given name. Naomi is also written נעמי in Hebrew, Ноемі in Cyrillic and ნაომი in Georgian.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 1.9K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Naomi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- #338 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 523 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Naomi in other scripts: Latin, Hebrew, Cyrillic and 3 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Noemi in AR Argentina, PE Peru, MX Mexico and 1 more, נעמי in IL Israel and Noémi in HU Hungary.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Naomi
- English:/naɪˈəʊmi/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/naˈo.mi/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Swahili:/naomi/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A name of Hebrew origin meaning 'pleasantness', often associated with a gentle and agreeable nature.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Naomi, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Naomi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #595 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Naomi | 81 |
| US United States | #507 | 113,178 | 1 in 2.9K | 113K | Naomi | 523 |
| MX Mexico | #205 | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 887 | Noemi | 193 |
| AR Argentina | #27 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 798 | 969 | Noemi | 122 |
| IT Italy | #704 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 1.3K | Naomi | 123 |
| PE Peru | #120 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 905 | register #17 | Noemi | 76 |
| HU Hungary | #210 | 25,280as Noémi | 1 in 387 | 25K | Noémi | 77 |
| AU Australia | #277 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 91 | Naomi | 248 |
| IL Israel | #100 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 717 | 751 | נעמי | 84 |
| PY Paraguay | #16 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Noemi | 46 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the pe-reniec-names register; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Naomi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Naomi means 'pleasantness' or 'my delight'; Mara means 'bitter'.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Naomi represents the journey from emptiness to fullness and the providence of God in preserving the messianic line through faithful remnants.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, Old Testament name from Hebrew No’omi, ‘pleasant one’ or ‘pleasantness’.
as a nameIrish first names
In French, Hebrew name meaning 'pleasantness' or 'my delight'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Biblical name (meaning ‘pleasantness’ in Hebrew}, borne by the wise motherin-law of Ruth. The name has long been regarded as typically Jewish, but it M NAN NANCY. NA NAQMH NAOM| NATALYA NATAS NATHANIEL NEA ENA NERIDAN SSA NESTA NESTO NARELLE occurs occasionally from the 17th century and has recently begun to come into more general use.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Naomi Wattsb. 1968GBEnglish actress (born 1968)
- Naomie Harrisb. 1976GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
- Naomi Osakab. 1997JPJapanese tennis player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)130 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 73 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Naomi?
- It depends on the language: in English /naɪˈəʊmi/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /naˈo.mi/ (Wiktionary); in Swahili /naomi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Naomi mean, and where does it come from?
- A name of Hebrew origin meaning 'pleasantness', often associated with a gentle and agreeable nature. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- Is Naomi a male or female name?
- Naomi is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), France (INSEE, 2024), Ecuador (INEC, 2024) and Brazil (IBGE, 2022), among others.
- What are other forms of the name Naomi?
- In the etymology graph, Noemi, Nohemi and Naomie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people named Naomi?
- Mondonomo estimates about 123 thousand people named Naomi in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled naomi. After it come United States, Mexico, Argentina and Italy; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Naomi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 113,178 people named Naomi in 2020, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Naomi compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Naomi is the 595th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/naomiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Naomi” — the 595th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.