Noemi
Feminine · Hebrew roots · “pleasantness”
Noemi is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 23,180 girls against 69 boys since 1880.
Noemi is the form the name took in Latin — the spelling Jerome used in the Vulgate for the woman at the heart of the Book of Ruth — and from there it settled into Italian, Spanish, Hungarian and Polish. Three syllables, all vowels doing the work, with the stress landing in different places depending on which language is speaking. It has been on US records since the early twentieth century, quietly, without ever crowding a classroom.
How old is the name Noemi?
Noemi first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Noemi alive today was born around 1999, making them about 26 years old. About 22,000 people named Noemi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Noemi most popular?
Noemi peaked in 1999, reaching #543 nationally. Today it ranks #583, 40 places below that high. See the whole 1999 chart.
Where it comes from
From Na'omi (Hebrew) to Noemi
The story of Noemi
The name begins in Hebrew scripture, where Naomi is Ruth's mother-in-law and the two of them walk back to Bethlehem together. When Jewish scholars in Alexandria translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek, the name came through as Noemin; the Latin Vulgate rendered it Noemi, and that is the spelling Catholic Europe inherited. Italian, Spanish, Hungarian and Polish all kept the Latin shape, which is why Noemi and Naomi are the same name arriving in English by two different roads — one through Latin and the Romance languages, one closer to the Hebrew. In the United States its strongest footing is in California, Texas and Florida, tracking the Spanish-speaking route in particular.
Meaning
pleasantness, my delight (Hebrew)
From Hebrew na'omi, built on the root n-'-m, 'pleasant, sweet'. In the Book of Ruth, Naomi returns from Moab widowed and asks to be called Mara, 'bitter', instead — a play on her own name that only works because the meaning was plain to its first hearers.
How the name formed
- Na'omiHebrew
- NoeminGreek Septuagint
- NoemiLatin Vulgate
- Noemí / Noémi
- Naomi
Related forms: Naomi · Noemí · Noémi · Noémie · Noemi · Noemi
Pronouncing Noemi
noh-EH-mee
Italian and much US English usage puts the stress in the middle: noh-EH-mee. Spanish Noemí stresses the last syllable, noh-eh-MEE, and Hungarian Noémi the first. All three are correct for their language, so it is worth deciding early which one you will answer to.
Nicknames for Noemi
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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
- 1915
- Most girls named
- 2023519 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #543reached in 1999
- Change vs 2023
- −1.9%509 in 2025, from 519
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.
Noemi in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Naomi in Hebrew — same name
- Noemí in Spanish — spelling variant
- Noémi in Hungarian — spelling variant
- Noémie in French — related form
- Noemi in Italian — same name
- Noemi in Polish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Noemis among us
people named Noemi are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 3,158 born in 2025 was named Noemi
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Dayna test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Noemi's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Dayna climbed just as high around 1982, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Dayna's path sketches the road Noemi is walking now.
Noemi is on its second act. Revived names age gently: the generation that wore them first is far enough away that the name feels classic rather than dated.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Noemi is headed
Noemi looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 16% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
High 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.
Noemi beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Noemi in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Recognizable in English through the familiar Naomi, so most people grasp it instantly even when they need the spelling.
- One spelling works unchanged in Italian, Polish, Spanish and Hungarian — useful in a bilingual family or across borders.
- A documented record stretching back to the Book of Ruth, with no gap in the line between then and now.
- Several established short forms already in real use: Noe, Nomi, Mimi.
- Familiar without being everywhere, and steady rather than tied to one moment of fashion.
- Naomi is the better-known spelling in English, so expect to correct it fairly often — usually a small, quick correction rather than a real obstacle.
- The stress moves between languages: noh-EH-mee, noh-eh-MEE, NOH-eh-mee. Relatives in different countries may each say it their own way.
- The accented forms Noemí and Noémi are standard in Spanish and Hungarian, but US paperwork and databases tend to strip accents, so the plain Noemi is the version that will follow her through life.
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Frequently asked
- How many Noemis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 22,000 people named Noemi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Noemi in 2025?
- Noemi ranks #583 among US girl names in 2025, with 509 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Noemi?
- About 1 in every 3,158 US girls born in 2025 was named Noemi — 509 in all.
- Will my child share the name Noemi with classmates?
- Noemi will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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