Noomi

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Noomi is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name132 records spelled Noomi2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Sweden

  Also written Noömi

• Spanish given name81 records spelled Noomi3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Mexico, Chile

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Noömi

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Noomi is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, Noomi (m.fl. former) är ett bibliskt namn, bildat till hebreiskans naʿam med betydelsen ’ljuvlighet, fröjd, glädje’. I Gamla testamentet är Noomi Ruts svärmor. Variantformer är → Naemi, → Naima och → Naomi. Under frikyrkorörelsernas framväxt i slutet av 1800-talet var Noomi och Naemi omtyckta namn. En känd nutida namnbärare är skådespelerskan Noomi Rapace (f. 1979). Noor, Nor → Nour

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Noomi Rapaceb. 1979SESwedish actress
• Noomi Hentschelb. 2002DEGerman association football player
• Noomi Christine Linde MatthiesenDKresearcher, Aalborg University

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 79 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Noomi?

We estimate roughly 3.4 thousand people bear Noomi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.

In which country does Noomi have the most bearers?

We estimate about 2.4 thousand people bear Noomi in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled noomi.

How common is Noomi compared with other names?

In Faroe Islands, Noomi is the 177th most common given name of 1,073 given names recorded there.

Is Noomi a male or female name?

Noomi is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Noomi mean?

Recorded meaning: Naomi (biblical character).