Naomi

Where Naomi comes from

From Hebrew נָעֳמִי (no'omí, literally “my pleasantness”), from נועם / נֹעַם (nó'am, “pleasantness”) + ־ִי (-í, “my, of me”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Naomi
  • Hebrew
  • Japanese
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #275 among girls — 32 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1968
    Naomi Watts born
    English actress
  3. 1970
    Naomi Campbell born
    British model
  4. 2024
    Peak, #44
    4,621 babies named Naomi — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew.
  • A female given name from Japanese.
Namesakes
  • Naomi Watts · English actress, born 1968
  • Naomi Campbell · British model, born 1970
  • Naomi Osaka · Japanese tennis player, born 1997
  • Naomi Klein · Canadian author and activist, born 1970
  • Naomi Scott · British actress and singer, born 1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.