Nozomi
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Japanese
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Nozomi is a girls' name of Japanese origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Nozomi mean?
Japanese
A female given name from Japanese.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Nozomi a girl's or a boy's name?
Nozomi is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nozomi in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 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, 6 girls in the US were named Nozomi, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2021, with 10 girls. It first appears in the records in 1988.
Half of all the girls named Nozomi in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Nozomi in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,801 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,471 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,501 |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,755 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,792 |
Names like Nozomi
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kyomi, Nyomi, Kiyomi, Miyori, Zuri, Nayomi, Demi, Remi, Niomi, Kayomi, Nami, Saori
More Japanese names
Kobe, Kaizen, Raiden, Ren, Akari, Kenzo, Ronin, Akira, Yuna, Emi, Kairi, Miya, Kenji, Reo, Jiraiya, Aizen
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, “Nozomi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nozomi, updated 20 October 2026.