Noemi
Meaning
form of Naomi in several languages ("my pleasantness", from naam, "to be pleasant")
The story
Noemi is the form Naomi takes in several languages, and Naomi is the Hebrew name meaning "my pleasantness", from naam, "to be pleasant", the name of Ruth's mother-in-law in the Old Testament. The American record climbed for nine straight decades, about 20 girls in the 1910s, about 950 in the 1950s, about 2,100 in the 1970s, up to about 4,500 in the 2000s, before easing to about 3,900 in the 2010s and about 2,800 so far this decade. Brazil is the name's other home at a different scale entirely: about 31,200 in the census, median age 37, with about 4,700 of them born in the 2010s alone. A biblical grandmother's name that two hemispheres keep giving to newborns, each in its own spelling rhythm, both saying the same pleasant thing.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Noemi peaked in the 2000s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.
Popularity in Brazil
31,506 people · the #788 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 6,452 · median age 37
Among people named Noemi living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2010s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 2,827 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
The Noemi deep dive
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