Meaning of the nameNoemy

Noemy is a spelling of the name Noemi, which means “my pleasantness”.

Meaning

“my pleasantness”

Meaning of the name Noemi, of which Noemy is a spelling.

Source: Behind the Name: Naomi · Behind the Name: Noemi

People (2022): 3,171
Rank in Brazil: #3,741
Median age: 10 years
2010 Census: 1,168; people

Noemy in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Noemy, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 2010s (1,071 people).

3,144 women 27 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Noemy is most common

States with the highest share of people named Noemy in the population, in the 2022 Census.

Alagoas 0.004%
Amazonas 0.003%
Bahia 0.002%
Pará 0.002%
Maranhão 0.002%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	636	0.001%
Bahia	339	0.002%
Minas Gerais	294	0.001%
Pará	186	0.002%
Rio de Janeiro	180	0.001%
Pernambuco	175	0.002%
Maranhão	137	0.002%
Alagoas	123	0.004%
Rio Grande do Sul	118	0.001%
Goiás	118	0.002%
Amazonas	103	0.003%
Ceará	102	0.001%
Paraíba	96	0.002%
Paraná	90	0.001%
Rio Grande do Norte	69	0.002%
Mato Grosso	57	0.002%
Santa Catarina	51	0.001%
Piauí	51	0.002%
Mato Grosso do Sul	48	0.002%
Espírito Santo	43	0.001%
Distrito Federal	38	0.001%
Sergipe	37	0.002%
Rondônia	24	0.002%
Tocantins	22	0.002%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

The spelling Noemy

Spelling with a final Y, recorded in the dictionary as a spelling variant; it is a younger spelling, concentrated among those born from the 2000s on.

About the name Noemi

According to Wiktionary, Noemi is a learned borrowing from Latin Noemī and equals the English Naomi, the name of Ruth's mother-in-law in the Book of Ruth. Behind the Name gives the Hebrew Naomi the sense of "my pleasantness", from the root na'am, "to be pleasant". In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 31,506 people named Noemi, with a median age of 37. The name appears in all generations and has grown again among those born from the 2000s on; proportionally, it is most common in Rio Grande do Sul, and it is almost always female. Noemy is the spelling variant recorded by the Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil.

Other spellings of Noemi

Spelling	People (2022)
Noemi	31,506
Noemy	3,171

Sources

Wiktionary: Noemi · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Behind the Name: Naomi · behindthename.com · meaning
Behind the Name: Noemi · behindthename.com · meaning
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Noemi · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Noemy

What does the name Noemy mean?

Noemy means “my pleasantness”, according to Behind the Name. This is the meaning of the name Noemi, of which Noemy is a spelling.

How many people are named Noemy in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 3,171 people with the first name Noemy, which ranks it number 3,741 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 2010s.

Is Noemy a boy's or a girl's name?

Noemy is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 3,144 women and 27 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Noemy?

Noemy is a name of Hebrew origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Noemy most common?

Proportionally, in Alagoas: 0.004% of the state's population is named Noemy (123 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Noemy?

Noemi. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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