Given name
Nozomi
“one who brings hope to others”
Nozomi is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “one who brings hope to others.”
Original Japanese愛泉
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “one who brings hope to others.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Japanese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1988. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nozomi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 143
- 0 boys · 143 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,470 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,470 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 507 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Nozomi’s family of names
Nozomi has a related form in Nozomea. Nozomi has a related form in Nozomee. Nozomi has a related form in Nozomey.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 12
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Nozomi
- Nozomi HiroyamaJapanese association football playerborn 1977
- Nozomi YamagoJapanese association football playerborn 1975
- Nozomi OkuharaJapanese badminton playerborn 1995
- Nozomi SasakiJapanese fashion model, singer and actressborn 1988
- Nozomi OsakoJapanese association football playerborn 1990
- Nozomi MaruyamaJapanese ski jumperborn 1998
- Nozomi TsujiJapanese singer and dancerborn 1987
- Nozomi YamamotoJapanese voice actressborn 1988
- Nozomi MomoiJapanese AV idol (1978–2002)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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