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Niaomi

Gender
Girl
Say it
nye-OH-mee
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#7,489 for girls

Niaomi is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “pleasantness”. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).

What does Niaomi mean?

Hebrew: variant of Naomi, perhaps influenced by Nia

“pleasantness”

Naomi is Ruth's mother-in-law in the biblical Book of Ruth.

Is Niaomi a girl's or a boy's name?

Niaomi is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Niaomi in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2000, with 6 girls.

1996Busiest: 6 in 20002008
Niaomi in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20082#7,302
20070–
20061#6,685
20050–
20044#3,916
20036#2,877
20024#3,556
20010–
20006#2,554
19990–
19982#5,081
19970–
19965#2,815

How popular is Niaomi in the US?

Rank in 2025
7,489th among girls
Babies in 2025
14 about 1 in 110,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Niaomi, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 25 girls. It first appears in the records in 1979.

Half of all the girls named Niaomi in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 70 girls in the US were given Niaomi or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,152, up from #7,489 for this spelling alone.

1979Busiest: 25 in 20222025
Niaomi in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202514#7,489
202411#8,941
202316#6,917
202225#5,169
202116#6,962
202011#8,948
201912#8,592
201817#6,788
201713#8,295
201611#9,408
201511#9,476
20148#11,925
201312#9,031
20120–
201110#10,370
201010#10,446
20090–
200810#10,802
20077#13,918
200614#8,234
20055#16,455
20040–
20030–
20025#15,426
20017#12,049
20007#11,794
19996#12,681
19980–
19970–
19960–
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19900–
19890–
19885#11,792
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19820–
19810–
19800–
19796#9,008

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Niaomi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/niaomi, updated 20 October 2026.