Naama
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Naama is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country. Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom. biblischer Herkunft (hebr.
- BRBrazil1 in 224K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 921as נעמה
- YEYemen≈1 in 4.1Kas נעמה
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 Naama itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,400 named נעמה, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled נעמה in IL Israel, YE Yemen, BG Bulgaria and 2 more.
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
weibl. Vom. biblischer Herkunft (hebr. na‘amä »Liebreiz, Anmut«). Im Alten
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Naama 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #146 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 921 | 938 | נעמה | 103 |
| YE Yemen | #264 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | נעמה | 2 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | נעמה | 3 |
| BR Brazil | — | 945 | 1 in 224K | 945 | Naama | 43 |
| US United States | — | 880as Neoma | 1 in 378K | 880 | Naama | 134 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | נעמה | 3 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | נעמה | 3 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Naama | 5 |
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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)
Naama is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Nadria, Nadriah, Nadyra, Nadyra
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Finnish, face (front of the head of an animal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, counsel, meeting
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, conseil, réunion
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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)
- Naama Nardib. 1931ILIsraeli singer
- Naamah Kelmanb. 1955USAmerican rabbi
- Naama Friedmannb. 1969ILIsraelian psychologist & academic
- Naama Tsal b. 1981ILIsraeli writer, editor and literary theorist
- Naama Schendarb. 1982ILIsraeli actress
- Naama Katesb. 1985USAmerican actress and musician
- Naama Lazimib. 1986ILIsraeli politician and social activist
- Nami Melumadb. 1988ILnot in their usual nameAmerican composer
- Naama Rakb. 1990ILIsraeli film critic
- Naama Pyritzfilm producer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 106 | #60,636 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Naama mean?
- Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom. biblischer Herkunft (hebr.
- Is Naama a male or female name?
- Naama is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Naama?
- In the etymology graph, Naamah is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Naama have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.4 thousand people named נעמה in Israel, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Naama?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 945 people named Naama in 2022, about 1 in 224 thousand residents.
- How common is Naama compared with other names?
- In Israel, Naama is the 146th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/naamaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Naama” — the 146th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.