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Naomi

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Hebrew נָעֳמִי (na'omiy) = 'my pleasure, my delight' [1]

2) Hebrew no'am = 'pleasure, delight' [2]

3) Hebrew no'am = 'my delight, loveliness' [3]

4) Hebrew noomi = 'comfort, grace' [4] [5]

5) Hebrew name meaning 'happy' [6]

6) Hebrew name meaning 'endearing', 'gentle' [7]

Related Names

Naomi ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Swedish
Naomí ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Icelandic
Naómí ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Icelandic

See also Naemi, Noemi, Noomi

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Naomiarson Faroe Islands

Female

Naomiardóttir Faroe Islands

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Naomi
Genitive: Naomis
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Naomi
Accusative: Naomi
Dative: Naomi
Genitive: Naomiar
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Naomi
Genitive: Naomin
Partitive: Naomia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Naomi
Genitive: Naomis
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Naomi
Genitive: Naomis

Name Day

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

4 January

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Bible

  • In the Old Testament, Naomi was the mother-in-law of Rut. After the dead of her husband she changed her name to Mara.

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 29 people were named Naomi (percentage of first or only given name: 48 %) [10]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[11]
1208 1723 1206 1719 2 4
Denmark Denmark[12]
535
n.a.
 535
n.a.
 0
n.a.
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
 573
n.a.
 573 0 0
Iceland Iceland[14]
11 16
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[15]
0 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[16]
599
n.a.
 599
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Naomi (f) Sources: [11][12][16][13]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Naomi (f) Sources: [17]


References

  1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  3. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  4. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  7. ↑ Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  8. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  9. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  17. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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