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Nokomis

Girls' name

My grandmother

Nokomis has been given to 60 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1999, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Nokomis, 2022

1 in 677,000

Nokomis over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nokomis: meaning, origin, and history

My grandmother

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nokomis means

Nokomis means “my grandmother”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nokomis is used in New World Mythology.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 60 girls were recorded with the name Nokomis between 1916 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1999; its best national rank was #3,392 in 1919.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Nokomis?

Nokomis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nokomis sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nokomis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nokomiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nokomis was born before 1977 — so the typical Nokomis is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
40
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1910s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (20).

Is Nokomis rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1999 (10)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,392
1919

Nokomis by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,392
1919
Peak year
1999
10 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
60
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nokomis

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Nokomis

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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