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First name · Feminine

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/).

Alive in 2025
1,256
Newborns 2025
59
National rank
#866
Meaning & Origin

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

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.

Living Naomis · 2019 → 2025
1,256 +511 since 2019
+50 2020
+58 2021
+89 2022
+109 2023
+93 2024
+112 2025
Trend

Naomi's popularity over time

59 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #322 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.

59 newborn Naomis in 2025
national rank #322 that year
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Regions

Where Naomi is most popular

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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Middle name

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).

As a first name
1,256
As a middle name
292
first name · 81% middle name · 19%
Middle-name ranking · women

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