Noemi
Given to more girls almost every year lately, a quiet comeback, yet it stays rare enough that most Poles have never met one. The name is Hebrew, carrying the sense of pleasantness or sweetness.
Noemi Pronunciation
Noemi is pronounced no-E-mee (/nɔˈɛmi/).
What Noemi means
Where Noemi comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Noemi comes from Hebrew, where No'omi means pleasantness. Its oldest bearer appears in the Book of Ruth. Naomi returns to Bethlehem after burying her husband and two sons, and she asks the women there to stop calling her Naomi and call her Mara instead, meaning bitter. The pleasant name and the bitter one stand side by side in a single chapter. Noemi is the softer, Latinized form that later settled into Polish usage.
The Polish gloss splits the meaning in two: słodycz and wdzięk, sweetness and grace. Neither word softens the other. Both describe a quality people liked to hear in the name.
Read out from a school register, Noemi still sounds a little apart from the Annas and Zuzannas around it. That distance is old. It goes back to a Hebrew word for pleasantness.
When Noemi celebrates name day
Noemi appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 14 December.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
How many people are named Noemi
1 in 7443 women in Poland is named Noemi. 3,031 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #587 among female names.
Noemi's popularity over time
186 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #195 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2001.
Where Noemi is most popular
Noemi is most popular in Lubusz, 76% above the national average (38 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+30%) and West Pomeranian (+23%). It is least common in Podlaskie and Świętokrzyskie, 48% and 42% below average respectively.
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Lubusz38 girls born+76%
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Lower Silesian89 girls born+30%
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West Pomeranian45 girls born+23%
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Silesian122 girls born+23%
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Pomeranian77 girls born+20%
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Greater Poland111 girls born+19%
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Opole23 girls born+15%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian51 girls born+7%
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Lublin44 girls born−1%
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Łódź47 girls born−15%
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Lesser Poland82 girls born−17%
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Warmian-Masurian26 girls born−17%
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Masovian124 girls born−20%
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Subcarpathian32 girls born−39%
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Świętokrzyskie14 girls born−42%
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Podlaskie15 girls born−48%
Noemi as a middle name
Noemi is a first name for 3,031 women in Poland and a middle name for another 899, a 77/23 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 258th, between Grace (908) and Seweryna (880).
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#256 Elfryda918
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#257 Grace908
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#258 Noemi899
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#259 Seweryna880
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#260 Elisabeth869