Nahomy
Feminine · “pleasant”
Nahomy respells Naomi — pleasant, in Hebrew — and Naomi tells the people of Bethlehem to stop calling her that and call her Bitter instead.
How old is the name Nahomy?
Nahomy first appears in US birth records in 1992 — 33 years ago. The typical Nahomy is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,500 people named Nahomy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Nahomy most popular?
Nahomy peaked in 2024, reaching #2033 nationally. Today it ranks #2117, 84 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From na'im to Nahomy
The story of Nahomy
Returning to Bethlehem widowed and childless, Naomi says do not call me Naomi, call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt bitterly with me — one of the sharpest lines in the Hebrew Bible, and it works only because her name means pleasant. Nahomy is a Latin American spelling and appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
pleasant, agreeable
Through Naomi, from the Hebrew No'omi, from na'im, 'pleasant' or 'agreeable'. The book of Ruth turns on the word: she asks to be called Mara, 'bitter', instead. The Nahomy spelling is a modern Spanish-influenced variant. The Hebrew is undisputed.
How the name formed
- na'im
- No'omi
- Naomi
- Nahomy
Related forms: Naomi · Nahomi · נעמי
Pronouncing Nahomy
nah-OH-mee
Three syllables, stress in the middle. The h in this spelling is silent.
Nicknames for Nahomy
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1992
- Most girls named
- 202496 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2033reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −8.3%88 in 2025, from 96
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Nahomy in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Naomi in English — spelling variant
- Nahomi in Spanish — spelling variant
- נעמי in Hebrew — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Virginia.
Nahomys among us
people named Nahomy are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 18,264 born in 2025 was named Nahomy
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Nahomy
- #2117
- Nahomy on the 2025 chart
- #773
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Nahomy went to 88 girls in 2025, but Nahomi is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 187, which makes it the 773rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,344 places above the chart.
- Nahomi99
- Nahomy88
About 1 girl in 8,595 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 18,264 for Nahomy itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Trenyce test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Nahomy's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Trenyce climbed just as high around 2003, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Trenyce's path sketches the road Nahomy is walking now.
Nahomy sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Nahomy is headed
Nahomy looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 26% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Nahomy beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Nahomy in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That she asks to be renamed Bitter is a first-rate use of a name's meaning.
- The pleasant meaning is transparent and undisputed.
- Three syllables of open vowels, which carries unusually well.
- Naomi is overwhelmingly the standard spelling.
- The silent h invites constant correction.
- Several Latin American spellings are in circulation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Nahomys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Nahomy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Nahomy?
- Nahomy is one of 2 recorded spellings. Nahomi is the more common one — 99 births in 2025 against 88 for Nahomy.
- How popular is the name Nahomy in 2025?
- Nahomy ranks #2117 among US girl names in 2025, with 88 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Nahomy?
- About 1 in every 18,264 US girls born in 2025 was named Nahomy — 88 in all.
- Will my child share the name Nahomy with classmates?
- Nahomy will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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