Nayomi
Feminine · “my pleasantness”
Nayomi is Naomi respelled, and Naomi is one of the more moving names in the Hebrew Bible because of what its bearer says about it. She asks to be called something else — the opposite of her own name — after everything has gone wrong.
How old is the name Nayomi?
Nayomi first appears in US birth records in 1984 — 41 years ago. The typical Nayomi is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,400 people named Nayomi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Nayomi most popular?
Nayomi peaked in 2022, reaching #2364 nationally. Today it ranks #2822, 458 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
Where it comes from
From No'omi to Nayomi
The story of Nayomi
Naomi is the mother-in-law in the book of Ruth, and when she returns to Bethlehem after losing her husband and both sons she tells the women there not to call her Naomi any more but Mara, bitter, because her life has turned. Nobody in the story obliges her. English took the name up after the Reformation and it has been in continuous use since. Nayomi is an American respelling that makes the vowels explicit for readers who might otherwise stumble at the ao.
Meaning
my pleasantness, my delight
Hebrew No'omi is built on na'im, 'pleasant, agreeable, lovely', with the possessive ending. The reading is documented and undisputed. Japanese has an unrelated Naomi, written with kanji such as 直美, which can be read as 'honest beauty' — a genuine coincidence between two languages, and one of the reasons the name travels so widely.
How the name formed
- No'omi
- Naomi
- Nayomi
Related forms: No'omi · Naomi · 直美
Pronouncing Nayomi
nay-OH-mee
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Hebrew says no-o-MEE with the stress at the end and two separate o sounds. British English often says NAY-oh-mee with the stress at the front; all three are heard.
Nicknames for Nayomi
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
- 1984
- Most girls named
- 202278 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2364reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- +7.1%60 in 2025, from 56
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.
Nayomi in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- No'omi in Hebrew — same name
- Naomi in English — spelling variant
- 直美 in Japanese — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Nayomis among us
people named Nayomi are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 26,788 born in 2025 was named Nayomi
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Nayomi
- #2822
- Nayomi on the 2025 chart
- #812
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Nayomi went to 60 girls in 2025, but Naiomi and Naiyomi are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 148, which makes it the 812th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,010 places above the chart.
- Naiomi82
- Nayomi60
- Naiyomi6
About 1 girl in 10,860 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 26,788 for Nayomi 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 Sherrilynn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Nayomi's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sherrilynn climbed just as high around 1963, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sherrilynn's path sketches the road Nayomi is walking now.
Nayomi 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 Nayomi is headed
Nayomi should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium 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.
Nayomi beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Nayomi in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented biblical name with an unusually human story attached to it.
- The respelling removes the ao that makes Naomi stumble for some readers.
- Nay and Omi are both natural short forms.
- Naomi is overwhelmingly the standard spelling and this one will be corrected constantly.
- Three pronunciations circulate in English alone, so the child will hear all of them.
- Nayomi, Naomi, Neomi and Noemi are all in use and look quite different on paper.
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Frequently asked
- How many Nayomis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Nayomi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Nayomi?
- Nayomi is one of 3 recorded spellings. Naiomi is the more common one — 82 births in 2025 against 60 for Nayomi.
- How popular is the name Nayomi in 2025?
- Nayomi ranks #2822 among US girl names in 2025, with 60 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Nayomi?
- About 1 in every 26,788 US girls born in 2025 was named Nayomi — 60 in all.
- Will my child share the name Nayomi with classmates?
- Nayomi will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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