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Naomi vs Naomie

American parents have registered 191,837 Naomis since 1880, against 2,099 Naomies. Naomi is still ahead, with 4,649 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Naomi against Naomie, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Naomi Naomie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Naomi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1986, when Naomi had 953 and Naomie had 28.

Side by side

  Naomi Naomie
Total US births 191,8372,099
Most in one year 4,64965
Babies in 2025 4,64941
Estimated living today 137,0001,700
Median age today 1819
Peak year 20252010
Best rank 47th girls2,726th girls
Rank in 2025 47th3,645th
First recorded 18801902
Girls / boys 191,547 / 2902,099 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Naomi Naomie
France 10,3708,570
England and Wales 12,49586
Belgium 2,501372
Switzerland 1,747122

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Naomi and Naomie.