girls:
182.2k births since 1880
#213 (96th percentile)
boys:
285 births since 1915
#4301 (6th percentile)
overall:
182.5k births since 1880
#420 (95th percentile)
The name Naomi is the #420 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 182,456 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 94.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #213 (96.3% percentile) for all time with 182,171 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,301 (6.2% percentile) for all time with 285 births since 1915.
Naomi has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1915 for boys).
The name Naomi has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Naomi reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 95.7% percentile (ranked #42) with 2,547 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 2,547 births per million (ranked 95.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1991, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Naomi is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #42 (95.7% percentile) with 2,547 births per million.
For boys, Naomi reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #545) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Naomi ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 27.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Naomi".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Naomi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.2% confident that Naomi is pronounced as nay-OH-mee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is nai-OH-mee, at 27.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like N EY0 OW1 M IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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