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Naoma vs Naomia

American parents have registered 2,534 Naomas since 1880, against 876 Naomias. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Naoma against Naomia, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Naoma Naomia

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 92 years in which either name was published, Naoma for 91 years and Naomia for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Naoma Naomia
Total US births 2,534876
Most in one year 9836
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 510210
Median age today 7878
Peak year 19241927
Best rank 747th girls1,331st girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18841890
Girls / boys 2,534 / 0876 / 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.

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