The first name Naomi can carry different meanings. If it is the English form of Noemie, it carries the meaning ‘joy’, derived from the Hebrew ‘no’am’. However, it can also be a Japanese name composed of ‘nao’ for ‘honesty’ and ‘mi’ for ‘beauty’.
Naomi is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The first name Naomi is one of the top 100 most popular girls names in the US – currently at #62 in our SmartGenius ranking. Over 1,000 babies each year are named Naomi, accounting for approximately 0.20 % of all newborn girls. In the entire USA, approximately 167,670 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Naomi. That is 0.05 % of all living Americans.
The first name Naomi can carry different meanings. If it is the English form of Noemie, it carries the meaning ‘joy’, derived from the Hebrew ‘no’am’. However, it can also be a Japanese name composed of ‘nao’ for ‘honesty’ and ‘mi’ for ‘beauty’.
By the way... Naomi is also the first name of a famous British model.
Naomi Campbell (*1970)
Naomi Campbell is probably best known for her work as a model, but is actually also an actress, singer, and businesswoman. Starting modeling at the age of 15, she established herself amongst the most recognisable and in-demand models of the past four decades. In the 1990s she was regarded to be one of the so-called "Big Five" – a group of supermodels defining the era. In addition to her modelling career, she recorded an R&B studio album and had appearances in film and television, such as the modelling-competition reality show "The Face" (since 2013).
Naomi Watts (*1968)
The British actress Naomi Watts had her international breakthrough role in David Lynch's psychological thriller "Mulholland Drive" (2001) – but her acting debut, she made 25 years before starring in the drama "For Love Alone" (1986). Subsequently, she appeared in the TV series "Hey Dad..!" (1990), "Brides of Christ" (1991), and "Home and Away" (1991). When she moved from Great Britain to the U.S. she first struggled as an actress until Lynch picked her for "Mullholland Drive".
Naomi Osaka (*1997)
The Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka is the first Asian player to hold the top ranking in singles. She was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) in 2019. Moreover she is a four-time Grand Slam singles champion. Osaka made her first two major titles at the 2018 US Open and the 2019 Australian Open. She was the first woman to win successive major singles titles since tennis legend Serena Williams.
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In the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Ruth Naomi is Ruth's mother-in-law. Naomi's stories address her struggle to survive with Ruth: After her husband Elimelech and her two sons Machlon and Kiljon died, she returns to Bethlehem with Ruth and renames herself Mara, which means bitterness.
When you hear the name Naomi, you might first think of a woman or a girl. But did you know that there are also places with the name Naomi? Are you also called Naomi? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
Naomi Peak, or Mount Naomi, is the highest peak in the Bear River Range in northern Utah and southern Idaho.
all over the U.S. are named Naomi. They are located in Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and South Dakota.
measures the resort community lake Naomi. It contains private beaches and marinas and is situated in Pocono Pines, Pennsylvania.
is the name of a main-belt asteroid which was discovered in 1992 by the Japanese Nihondaira Observatory.
If we dig really deep into our statistics, we find that there are very few girls' names that have been consistently popular for so long that they have been given to newborns in every single year since the beginning of our records in 1880. In fact, there are only 432 girls' names that appear in our statistics in every single year, and Naomi is one of those very special classics. At the same time, Naomi has never been more popular than it is in this century - in 2022, the name even made it to rank #44 of the most popular girls' names, easily landing in the top 100 of our SmartGenius first name statistics.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Naomi was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
...because: In 2022, 4,463 girls were born and given the name Naomi by their parents. That puts Naomi at #44 on our list of most popular girls' names. It was much less popular in 1970 - only 555 parents chose this name for their newborn daughter and it ranked 401 on the popularity scale of all girls' names.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Naomi is one of them. However, Naomi is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Hawaii seem to particularly fancy this name – the 1,265 women called Naomi who live here are 0,287% of all female residents and push their name up to #88, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in Hawaii.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter N is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Naomi is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all girls' names starting with an N, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with N that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Nancy.
If your name is Naomi and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Naomi, you can simply say:
Nut
Apple
Orange
Mouse
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Naomi
Naomi
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
N
A
O
M
I
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
N
A
O
M
I
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Naomi sounds like this:
