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Naomi?

Honesty please

I like it! Not sure why, I just like the sound of it. Not too frilly but still pretty. And not particularly tied to any generation.

I like it, and it's on our list for DC3.

I really like it.

I love it

I don't like it but it's only because I went to Uni with one and she was not a nice person!

Yay.

One reservation: there are two pronunciations (one right, one wrong).

It's a good solid non-frilly but feminine name with good associations.

Love it, it was our name if we ever had a girl.

Strong and not frilly/fussy. Also quite rare.

I'm not wild about it but it isn't hideous. I think it's a difficult name to get right and is open to various mispronunciations and can be ugly sounding from the mouths of people with very harsh accents, but it's an ok name in itself.

I like it

I used it as a middle name for DD. Didn't use as a first time as didn't want her to have a life time of 'It's Naomi, not Niomi, actually....' Don't know why it's so widely mispronounced but it isn't even a small minority who do it.

I like it.

First name, not first time. Autocorrect....

Like it a lot. Considered it for my DD but DH wasn't sold on it. Not sure why. The only thing is the 2 different pronounciations and how much it would bother you and in future your DD when it's mispronounced.

I like it. Only reservation would be having to keep saying whether it was NAY-oh-me, Nay-OH-me or Ny-OH-me.

Love it.

Yay. It sounds nice, uncomplicated and classic. And also went to Uni with a Naomi; she was lovely.

I also love the version Noomi, but that might be a lot less uncomplicated in the UK.

Yay. It's a nice name and not at all common.

I really like it and it was in my girl list, but I once knew someone with the name pronounced NOW-mi which I thought was really weird. She was convinced hers was the correct pronunciation, but I have never heard anyone else do this! I would say it Nay-O-mi.

I love it. Was on list for DD

I like it. But only said Nay-oh-me

I did really like until I met a bitchy Naomi who put me right off it. If your life is free of stoopid, bitchy, saxophone-playing Naomi's I would go definitely go for it.

I love it!
It's unusual - but not 'out there'.
Strong, feminine and classy.

Yay although everyone here says Niomi

yay

Lovely. A classic that will never be either 'in' or 'out'.