Naoma
Naoma was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 2,534 Americans have been recorded with it between 1884 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Naoma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Naoma?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,878, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
98 babies in 1924, the peak
Naoma peaked in 1924, when 98 girls were given it, #755 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #16,878 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,342 | 2.7 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,646 | 2.6 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,753 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,343 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,410 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,682 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,276 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,490 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,522 | 6.1 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 7 | #5,638 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,642 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,828 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,169 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,159 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,941 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,096 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,727 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,118 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,114 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,841 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,629 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,114 | 7.2 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,053 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,029 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,170 | 12.2 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,103 | 12.8 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,257 | 11.7 |
| 1948 | 21 | #2,168 | 12.4 |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,126 | 12.4 |
| 1946 | 26 | #1,797 | 16.5 |
| 1945 | 30 | #1,505 | 23.0 |
| 1944 | 32 | #1,449 | 24.1 |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,578 | 20.8 |
| 1942 | 33 | #1,432 | 24.4 |
| 1941 | 32 | #1,378 | 26.5 |
| 1940 | 38 | #1,200 | 33.2 |
| 1939 | 30 | #1,370 | 27.4 |
| 1938 | 51 | #1,004 | 46.2 |
| 1937 | 40 | #1,140 | 37.6 |
| 1936 | 47 | #1,020 | 45.2 |
| 1935 | 43 | #1,067 | 41.0 |
| 1934 | 48 | #1,001 | 46.0 |
| 1933 | 43 | #1,072 | 42.7 |
| 1932 | 46 | #1,051 | 43.1 |
| 1931 | 50 | #990 | 47.0 |
| 1930 | 69 | #866 | 61.3 |
| 1929 | 67 | #872 | 60.0 |
| 1928 | 69 | #886 | 59.8 |
| 1927 | 72 | #880 | 60.4 |
| 1926 | 55 | #1,010 | 46.4 |
| 1925 | 72 | #876 | 59.1 |
| 1924 | 98 | #755 | 78.5 |
| 1923 | 75 | #850 | 62.2 |
| 1922 | 80 | #823 | 66.6 |
| 1921 | 72 | #876 | 58.4 |
| 1920 | 80 | #815 | 66.8 |
| 1919 | 68 | #847 | 60.2 |
| 1918 | 68 | #872 | 58.7 |
| 1917 | 61 | #893 | 56.4 |
| 1916 | 63 | #863 | 60.3 |
| 1915 | 62 | #830 | 63.0 |
| 1914 | 49 | #847 | 64.3 |
| 1913 | 40 | #835 | 64.0 |
| 1912 | 29 | #955 | 52.0 |
| 1911 | 25 | #867 | 59.8 |
| 1910 | 28 | #827 | 70.6 |
| 1909 | 20 | #927 | 57.6 |
| 1908 | 20 | #904 | 59.8 |
| 1907 | 14 | #1,076 | 43.9 |
| 1906 | 20 | #835 | 67.7 |
| 1905 | 19 | #862 | 65.2 |
| 1904 | 19 | #846 | 69.0 |
| 1903 | 13 | #1,014 | 49.6 |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,295 | 34.1 |
| 1901 | 12 | #993 | 50.1 |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,393 | 30.0 |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,076 | 42.9 |
| 1898 | 16 | #875 | 61.8 |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,141 | 38.4 |
| 1896 | 13 | #937 | 54.6 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,181 | 38.5 |
| 1894 | 12 | #938 | 53.8 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,146 | 37.6 |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,149 | 37.7 |
| 1891 | 12 | #829 | 64.7 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,422 | 28.0 |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,118 | 41.1 |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,070 | 41.5 |
| 1885 | 6 | #1,011 | 45.1 |
| 1884 | 7 | #904 | 54.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Naoma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Naoma has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 91 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Naoma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Naoma, and how old are they?
An estimated 491 Americans named Naoma and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (19% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 67 and 86. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 755 people named Naoma (750 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 696 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Naoma born?
The states with the most babies named Naoma are Texas, Oklahoma and West Virginia, with 61% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma and West Virginia are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 148 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Oklahoma | 83 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| West Virginia | 57 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Missouri | 41 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 37 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arkansas | 28 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Kentucky | 28 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Nebraska | 10 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Naoma is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Naoma is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Naoma with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 208,156 babies since 1880, Naoma is the third most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 5,021 babies recorded by SSA was a Naoma (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Naoma
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Naoma and names like it
- Compare Naoma and NaomiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sNaoma peaked in 1924.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Naoma since 1910.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Naoma.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Naoma alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with NMost given first.