# Naomi (given name)

Naomi or Noemi is a given name of separate biblical Hebrew and Japanese origin used in various languages and cultures.

## Hebrew

Naomi (nah-o-mi) (נָעֳמִי‎) is a feminine name of Hebrew origin. In Hebrew, it means "pleasantness" and was originally pronounced with the stress on the i (the o is a hataf qamatz, marked with a shva to indicate that it is very short). In the Book of Ruth, Naomi is Ruth's mother-in-law, making the name Naomi a Biblical name.
Variant forms of Naomi :
| Arabic | نعيمة |
| Armenian | Նոյեմի |
| Czech | Noemi |
| Dutch | Naomi |
| English | Naomi, Naomie |
| Finnish | Noomi |
| French | Naomé (Belgian), Noemy, Noémi, Noémie, Noëmie |
| German | Noemi, Noomi |
| Greek | Ναούμα, Ναόμι |
| Haitian Creole | Nahomie |
| Hebrew | נָעֳמִי |
| Hungarian | Naómi, Noémi |
| Indonesian | Naomi |
| Irish | Náoimí |
| Italian | Noemi |
| Persian | نائومی |
| Polish | Noemi |
| Portuguese | Noemi, Noémia, Noêmia (Brazilian) |
| Russian | Наоми, Ноэми; Ноеминь (for the biblical character) |
| Serbian | Naomi/Наоми |
| Spanish | Noemi, Noemí, Nohemí (Mexican) |
| Tagalog | Noemí, Naomi |
| Thai | นาโอมิ, เนโยมิ |

## Japanese

Naomi (なおみ, ナオミ), pronounced is a Japanese name. Though it is a unisex name, it is primarily used by women. Naomi can be spelled using hiragana, katakana, kanji, or a combination of kana and kanji.
For example:
* なお美
* 直美
* 尚美
* 直己
* 尚己
* 直実
* 尚実
* 奈緒美

## Popularity

Naomi was among the five most popular names for Black newborn girls in the American state of Virginia in 2022 and again in 2023.

## People named Naomi or Noemi
### Academia

* Naomi Beckwith (born 1976), American curator
* Naomi Chazan (born 1946), Israeli academic and politician
* Naomi Feil (1932–2023), American gerontologist and author
* Naomi Habib, Israeli neuroscientist
* Naomi Jochnowitz, American mathematician
* Naomi Oreskes (born 1958), American science historian
* Naomi Weisstein (1939–2015), American cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, author, and professor

### Fine arts

* Marie-Noémi Cadiot, French sculptor of the 19th century
* Noemi Smilansky (1916–2016), Austro-Hungarian Empire-born Israeli painter

### Authors

* Naomi Alderman (born 1974), English novelist and game writer
* Naomi Frankel, German-Israeli novelist
* Naomi Jacob, English author, actress and broadcaster
* Naomi Klein, Canadian journalist, author, and social activist
* Naomi Lindstrom, Latin Americanist literary critic
* Naomi Mitchison, Scottish novelist and poet
* Naomi Novik, American novelist
* Naomi Shihab Nye, American poet and author
* Naomi Replansky (1918–2023), American poet
* Naomi Royde-Smith, British novelist
* Naomi Schor, American literary critic and theorist
* Naomi Wolf, American feminist author
* Noémi Kiss, Hungarian writer
* Denise Naomi Klein, British romantic novelist

### Film

* Naomi Akimoto (秋本 奈緒美, born 1963), Japanese actress and singer
* Naomi Battrick, British actress
* Naomi Bentley, British actress
* Naomi Childers, silent film actress
* Naomie Harris, English actress
* Naomi Grossman (born 1975), American actress
* Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal, American screenwriter
* Naomi Kawase, Japanese film director
* Noémie Lvovsky, French film director
* Noémie Merlant, French actress and filmmaker
* Naomi Nagasawa (Nao Nagasawa), Japanese voice actress
* Naomi Nishida, Japanese actress
* Naomi Scott, English actress, singer and musician
* Naomi Sequeira, Australian actress and singer
* Naomi Shindō, Japanese voice actress
* Noemi Steuer, Swiss actress
* Naomi Stevens (1925-2018), American character actress
* Noomi Rapace, Swedish actress
* Naomi Wakabayashi, Japanese voice actress
* Naomi Watanabe (渡辺直美), Japanese actress
* Naomi Watts, British actress

### Law

* Noemí Rial, Argentinian lawyer and politician
* Naomi Roht-Arriaza, American lawyer
* Noemí Sanín, Colombian lawyer and politician

### Modelling

* Naomi Campbell (born 1970), British supermodel
* Naomi Sims, African American model, businesswoman and author
* Noémie Lenoir, French model
* Noemi Letizia, Italian celebrity

### Music

* Noemi (singer), Italian singer (born Veronica Scopelliti) and music video director
* Naomi Allen, singer signed to Def Jam
* Noemí Carrión, Spanish singer and actress
* Naomi Chiaki (born 1947), Japanese singer and actress
* Noémi Győri (born 1963), Hungarian classical flautist
* Naomi Hall, American musician
* Naomi Higginson, British singer best known as Caleidra
* Naomi Judd, American country music singer, songwriter, and activist
* Noëmi Nadelmann (born 1962), Swiss soprano
* Naomi Neville, pseudonym of American composer Allen Toussaint (1938–2015)
* Naomi Phoenix, English singer-songwriter
* Naomi Polani (1927–2024), Israeli musical director, theater director, singer, producer, actress, and dancer
* Noémi Rime, French soprano
* Naomi Shemer, Israeli songwriter, the "first lady of Israeli song and poetry"
* Naomi Yang (musician), singer with the group Galaxie 500
* Shinta Naomi [id] (born 1994), member of the Indonesian idol group JKT48

### Politics

* Naomi Gonzalez, Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives
* Naomi Jakobsson, Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives
* Naomi Long, Leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
* Naomi C. Matusow (born 1938), New York politician
* Naomi Mata'afa, Prime Minister of Samoa
* Noemí Rial, Argentine Secretary of Labor
* Noemí Santana Perera, a member of the Podemos party of Spain
* Naomi Seymour (born 1938), Bahamian politician
* Naomi Tokashiki, Japanese politician
* Naomi Wyatt, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Office of Administration
* Naomi Yamamoto, Canadian politician
* Ruth Noemí Colón, Secretary of State of New York

### Sport

* Noémi Boekel, Dutch softball player
* Noemi Cantele, Italian road bicycle racer
* Naomi Castle, Australian water polo player
* Noémi Dakos, Hungarian handballer
* Naomi Folkard (born 1983), English archer
* Naomi Hoshikawa (星川 直美, born 1969), Japanese cross-country skier
* Naomi Higuchi (樋口 直巳, born 1961), Japanese sport wrestler
* Naomi Isozaki, Japanese Paralympic archer
* Naomi James, round-the-world sailor
* Naomi Knight, ring name for American professional wrestler and dancer Trinity McCray
* Naomi Lang, American ice dancer
* Noemi Lung, former Romanian butterfly and medley swimmer
* Naomi Matsumoto (松本 直美, born 1968), Japanese softball player
* Naomi Mugo, Kenyan middle distance runner
* Noémi Németh, Hungarian hammer thrower
* Naomi Osaka, Haitian-Japanese professional tennis player
* Naomi Russell, Australian gymnast
* Naomi Sekido (関戸 直美, born 1969), Japanese swimmer
* Noemí Simonetto de Portela, Argentine athlete
* Naomi Uemura, Japanese adventurer, first person to reach the North Pole solo
* Naomi Takewaki (竹脇 直巳, born 1964), Japanese bobsledder
* Naomi Taniguchi, Japanese racer
* Naomi Too, Kenyan volleyball player
* Noémi Tóth, Italian water polo defender
* Noémi Trufán, Hungarian handballer
* Naomi van As, Dutch field hockey player
* Naomi Williams (footballer) (born 2004), English footballer
* Naomi Young (born 1976), Australian synchronized swimmer

### Other notable people

* Naomi Ballantyne, New Zealand insurance executive
* Noémi Ban, Hungarian-born American Jew and Holocaust survivor
* Noemí de Miguel (born 1980), Spanish sports journalist and television presenter
* Naomi Ferguson, commissioner of the New Zealand Inland Revenue Department
* Naomi Gray, American, first female Vice President of Planned Parenthood
* Naomi Irion (died 2022), American murder victim
* Naomi Milgrom, Australian business owner
* Naomi Miller, American murder victim
* Naomi Sewell Richardson, African-American suffragist and educator
* Naomi Smalls (born 1993), the stage name of American drag queen Davis Heppenstall
* Naomi Wu, also known as SexyCyborg, Chinese DIY maker and internet personality

### Fictional characters

* Naomi, a cow villager from the video game series Animal Crossing
* Naomi, a Parasaurolophus from the video game Goodbye Volcano High
* Naomi, in Kamen Rider
* Naomi, in the Tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Den-O
* Naomi, in MicroVolts
* Naomi, Phantom Society Devil Summoner in the video game Soul Hackers
* Naomi, in the US TV Series Supernatural
* Naomi Armitage, protagonist of the anime Armitage III
* Naomi Bennett, in the Grey's Anatomy spin-off Private Practice
* Naomi Campbell, in the television series Skins
* Naomi Clark, a socialite in the CW primetime drama show 90210
* Naomi Collins, in Dark Shadows
* Naomi Dorrit, in the American drama/adventure television series Lost
* Naomi Harper, in the American sitcom Mama's Family
* Naomi Hunter, in the Metal Gear series
* Naomi Inoue, in Code Geass
* Naomi Julien, in the soap opera EastEnders
* Naomi Katagaki, in the anime film Hello World
* Naomi Lapaglia, in movie The Wolf of Wall Street
* Naomi McDuffie, title character in the TV series Naomi
* Naomi Misora, ex-FBI agent in the anime and manga series Death Note
* Naomi Nagata, in the book series The Expanse by James S. A. Corey, and its television adaptation
* Naomi Nakashima, in the survival horror video game Corpse Party
* Naomi Putnam, in The Handmaid's Tale (TV series)
* Naomi Randall, a character in the 2021 action-adventure RPG Scarlet Nexus
* Naomi Rodriguez, in the musical 21 Chump Street
* Naomi Turner, in Elena of Avalor
* Naomi Umegae, a government agent with psychokinetic powers in Zettai Karen Children
* Naomi Walters, in Emmerdale
* Naomi Wildman, in the television series Star Trek: Voyager
* Naomi Zeigler, in the book series Pretty Little Liars by Sarah Shepard