Given name
Noomi
“my pleasantness”
Noomi is a feminine given name from Biblical Hebrew, meaning “my pleasantness.” It is used in Swedish, Finnish, and Faroese.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Biblical Hebrew נָעֳמִי (no'omí, “my pleasantness”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2012. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Noomi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 45
- 0 boys · 45 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 2012.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Noomi’s family of names
In German usage, Noomi has a related form in Naomi. In Finnish usage, Noomi has a conventional equivalent in the French form Noémie. In Finnish usage, Noomi has a conventional equivalent in the Greek form Νούμι.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Noomi has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Biblical Hebrew roots to each of them.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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