Neomia
Feminine · “Pleasantness”
Neomia is a lengthened Naomi, and the name underneath belongs to a book that is unusual in the Hebrew Bible for two reasons at once: it is named for a foreigner, and its central loyalty is between two women.
How old is the name Neomia?
Neomia first appears in US birth records in 1903 — 122 years ago. The typical Neomia alive today was born around 1932, making them about 93 years old. About 300 people named Neomia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Neomia most popular?
Neomia peaked in 1933, reaching #1244 nationally. See the whole 1933 chart.
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Where it comes from
From No'omi to Neomia
The story of Neomia
The Book of Ruth is four chapters long and structurally strange. It is named after a Moabite woman — a foreigner from a people the rest of the text is hostile to — and the relationship it turns on is between her and her mother-in-law, who has lost her husband and both sons and tells the younger women to go home. Ruth refuses, in the lines everybody knows about where you go I will go. Two widows with no standing arrange their own survival across the rest of the book, and the genealogy at the end makes the foreign woman the great-grandmother of David. Nothing else in the collection is shaped like it.
Meaning
Pleasantness
The Hebrew name means pleasant or agreeable. The added ending here is an American lengthening and carries nothing of its own; in particular the neo at the front is not the Greek word for new, which the spelling suggests and the history does not support.
How the name formed
- No'omi
- Naomi
- Neomia
Related forms: No'omi · Noemí · Noemi
Pronouncing Neomia
nee-OH-mee-uh
Four syllables with the stress on the second. Nay-OH-mee-uh is also used, following the older pronunciation of the shorter name.
Nicknames for Neomia
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
- 1903
- Most girls named
- 193333 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1244reached in 1933
- Change vs 1962
- −16.7%5 in 1971, from 6
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.
Neomia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- No'omi in Hebrew — related form
- Noemí in Spanish — related form
- Noemi in Italian — related form
Neomias among us
people named Neomia are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Neomia sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled, warm and easy to explain.
- It is long enough to carry several very different short forms.
- The name behind it is recognized across three religious traditions.
- Naomi is the familiar name and hers will be shortened to it by people who assume the ending is an error.
- Four syllables will be cut to two by any classroom.
- The neo at the front invites a Greek reading that the name does not have.
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Frequently asked
- How many Neomias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 300 people named Neomia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Neomia in 2025?
- Neomia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Neomia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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