Naama
Only about 150 women in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet a Naama. The name is Hebrew and means "pleasantness".
Naama Pronunciation
Naama is pronounced nah-AH-mah (/naˈama/).
What Naama means
Where Naama comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Naama begins in Hebrew, in the root na'em, which means pleasant. The name reads as pleasantness itself, and in Polish as przyjemność, wdzięk. It belongs to the Jewish naming tradition, where biblical names come back generation after generation.
Two women in the Hebrew Bible carry the older form, Naamah. One appears in Genesis 4:22, named as the sister of Tubal-cain and daughter of Lamech. The other appears in the first book of Kings, an Ammonite woman remembered as the mother of King Rehoboam. The same root sits under both.
A girl named Naama in Poland would spell those letters onto a class register, a Hebrew name among Polish ones. She has no diminutive of her own to fall back on, and no cross-gender variant. What the name keeps is its short meaning, pleasantness, and the Hebrew root na'em behind it.
How many people are named Naama
1 in 153359 women in Poland is named Naama. 147 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2678 among female names.
Naama's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Naama as a middle name
Naama is a first name for 147 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 99/1 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 6451st, between Māra (2) and Naemi (2).
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