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Naomie vs Naomy

American parents have registered 2,099 Naomies since 1880, against 1,850 Naomys. Naomie is still ahead, with 41 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Naomie against Naomy, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Naomie Naomy

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 111 years in which either name was published, Naomie for 88 years and Naomy for 23 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Naomie Naomy
Total US births 2,0991,850
Most in one year 65126
Babies in 2025 4131
Estimated living today 1,7001,800
Median age today 1916
Peak year 20102008
Best rank 2,726th girls1,756th girls
Rank in 2025 3,645th4,460th
First recorded 19021981
Girls / boys 2,099 / 01,850 / 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 Naomies alive today are over 19; half the Naomys are over 16. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Naomie Naomy
France 8,5701,745
Belgium 372168
England and Wales 864

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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