Naomi
From Hebrew, carrying the sense of pleasantness and sweetness. It stays rare in Poland, most people here have never met one, but it's climbing: more girls got it last year than in years past.
Naomi Pronunciation
Naomi is pronounced nah-O-mee (/naˈɔmi/).
What Naomi means
Where Naomi comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Naomi comes from Hebrew, from the root no'am, which means pleasantness or sweetness. Its oldest bearer stands in the Book of Ruth. Widowed and grieving, she asks her neighbours to stop calling her by that sweet name and to call her Mara instead, meaning bitter. The sweetness and its reversal sit inside one short story.
There is a second Naomi, far from Hebrew. In Japanese the same sounds fall into place as a native name, written with characters such as 直美, honest beauty. Tanizaki Jun'ichirō built his 1924 novel around a woman called Naomi, whose foreign-sounding name unsettles the man who loves her. Few names settle so easily into two languages that share nothing.
For a Polish family the name reads as clean and short, three syllables a teacher can read off a class register without stumbling. It stays close to its meaning. Naomi is no'am, the pleasantness named in Ruth.
How many people are named Naomi
1 in 17949 women in Poland is named Naomi. 1,256 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #866 among female names.
Naomi's popularity over time
59 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #322 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.
Where parents choose Naomi
Naomi is most popular in Lubusz, 159% above the national average (18 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+60%) and Lower Silesian (+50%). It is least common in Podlaskie and Lublin, 78% and 72% below average respectively.
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Lubusz
+159%1 in 2,759 babies
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Silesian
+60%1 in 4,462 babies
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Lower Silesian
+50%1 in 4,762 babies
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Podlaskie
−78%1 in 32,893 babies
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Lublin
−72%1 in 25,669 babies
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Warmian-Masurian
−60%1 in 17,948 babies
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Lubusz+159% 18 born1 in 2,759 babies+159%
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Silesian+60% 51 born1 in 4,462 babies+60%
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Lower Silesian+50% 33 born1 in 4,762 babies+50%
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Pomeranian+41% 29 born1 in 5,080 babies+41%
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Opole+40% 9 born1 in 5,122 babies+40%
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Łódź+7% 19 born1 in 6,669 babies+7%
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Greater Poland+3% 31 born1 in 6,943 babies+3%
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West Pomeranian−7% 11 born1 in 7,675 babies−7%
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Lesser Poland−9% 29 born1 in 7,825 babies−9%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−21% 12 born1 in 9,115 babies−21%
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Masovian−21% 39 born1 in 9,084 babies−21%
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Subcarpathian−35% 11 born1 in 10,960 babies−35%
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Warmian-Masurian−60% 4 born1 in 17,948 babies−60%
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Lublin−72% 4 born1 in 25,669 babies−72%
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Podlaskie−78% 2 born1 in 32,893 babies−78%
Naomi as a middle name
Naomi is a first name for 1,256 women in Poland and a middle name for another 292, an 81/19 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 393rd, between Prakseda (294) and Ela (291).
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#391 Isabelle296
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#392 Prakseda294
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#393 Naomi292
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#394 Ela291
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#395 Kristina290