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Noomi

Girls' name

My pleasantness

Noomi has been given to 45 babies in the U.S. since 2012. 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 2012, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Noomi, 2024

1 in 557,000

Noomi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Noomi: meaning, origin, and history

My pleasantness

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Noomi means

Noomi means “my pleasantness”, associated with no'omí.

Origin, language, and formation

Noomi is used in Faroese, Finnish and Swedish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Noomi is pronounced /ˈnoːmi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 45 girls were recorded with the name Noomi between 2012 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2012; its best national rank was #9,560 in 2012.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Noomi?

Noomi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Noomi 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Noomi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Noomis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Noomi was born before 2015 — so the typical Noomi is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
75.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
45
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 75.6% of all recorded uses (34).

Is Noomi 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2012 (12)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,560
2012

Spellings of Noomi

Noomi is not the most common spelling — Norma is, with 50.8% against Noomi's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Noomi around the world

Where Noomi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2013–2018
    #3,518
    in 2018
  • France
    2011–2022
    #5,998
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2018–2019
    #2,941
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Noomi 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
#9,560
2012
Peak year
2012
12 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
45
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Noomi

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

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Sibling names for Noomi

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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