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Naomia vs Naomie

American parents have registered 2,099 Naomies since 1880, against 876 Naomias. Naomie is still ahead, with 41 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Naomia against Naomie, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Naomia 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

Of the 123 years in which either name was published, Naomie for 73 years and Naomia for 50 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.

9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Naomia Naomie
Total US births 8762,099
Most in one year 3665
Babies in 2025 under 541
Estimated living today 2101,700
Median age today 7819
Peak year 19272010
Best rank 1,331st girls2,726th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked3,645th
First recorded 18901902
Girls / boys 876 / 02,099 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Naomias alive today are over 78; half the Naomies are over 19. That is 59 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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