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Nomi

Gender
Girl
Say it
NOH-mee
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#2,859 for girls

Nomi is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “pleasantness”. In 2025 it ranked 2,859th for girls in the US (59 babies).

What does Nomi mean?

Hebrew: short form of Naomi

“pleasantness”

A short form of Naomi, Ruth's mother-in-law in the biblical Book of Ruth.

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

Nomi is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 59 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Nomi in the US?

Rank in 2025
2,859th among girls
Babies in 2025
59 about 1 in 27,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising up 59% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 59 girls in the US were named Nomi, making it the 2,859th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,966th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 71 girls. It first appears in the records in 1954.

Half of all the girls named Nomi in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

1954Busiest: 71 in 20242025
Nomi in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202559#2,859
202471#2,508
202351#3,181
202258#2,894
202164#2,674
202054#2,966
201931#4,436
201829#4,660
201722#5,657
201617#6,898
201515#7,610
201416#7,300
201310#10,230
201214#8,204
20118#12,146
201011#9,786
20090–
20087#13,827
200711#10,125
20067#13,601
20059#10,915
20040–
20030–
20020–
20016#13,514
20005#15,024
19990–
19980–
19979#9,012
199614#6,387
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19900–
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19820–
19810–
19800–
19790–
19780–
19776#8,442
19760–
19750–
19740–
19730–
19720–
19710–
19700–
19690–
19680–
19676#6,041
19660–
19650–
19640–
19630–
19620–
19610–
19600–
19590–
19580–
19570–
19560–
19550–
19546#5,146

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Sources

Figures from 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, “Nomi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nomi, updated 20 October 2026.