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This is a name my friend told me he heard a while back, pronounced tay-O-mee, a girl his mother worked with. I thought it was a one-off unique name. He said it was from the phrase "the apple of my eye", via abbreviating the first four words and then adding a letter i, since it is a homonym for "eye".
Recently I saw that it is actually in the submitted names database, and that in the revision history the original submitter simply wrote "the apple of my eye" without any elaboration at all, so obviously this part of the entry was removed. Either way, since I'd heard of the name already with that specific meaning, I'm wondering if it might not be a unique invention using that phrase, but a little more known.
I've found evidence that it is not unique at least here in the United Kingdom, but it is rare.
http://names.darkgreener.com/#taomi
I'm aware anecdotal evidence probably isn't suitable for an entry on this site. I wish I could find a concrete source or origin for this name but searching hasn't turned up very much. I was wondering if anyone more experienced has any sources of information about the name's origin, whether it's actually from "the apple of my eye" or if it's a creative spin on Naomi, or something that might have popularised the name ever so slightly.
Recently I saw that it is actually in the submitted names database, and that in the revision history the original submitter simply wrote "the apple of my eye" without any elaboration at all, so obviously this part of the entry was removed. Either way, since I'd heard of the name already with that specific meaning, I'm wondering if it might not be a unique invention using that phrase, but a little more known.
I've found evidence that it is not unique at least here in the United Kingdom, but it is rare.
http://names.darkgreener.com/#taomi
I'm aware anecdotal evidence probably isn't suitable for an entry on this site. I wish I could find a concrete source or origin for this name but searching hasn't turned up very much. I was wondering if anyone more experienced has any sources of information about the name's origin, whether it's actually from "the apple of my eye" or if it's a creative spin on Naomi, or something that might have popularised the name ever so slightly.
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I named my daughter Taomi - I took my sisters' middle names Tamara and Naomi and combined them. I was pleasantly surprised that the name existed!
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I'm guessing it probably is a "creative spin" on Naomi. People like to make up etymologies for names all the time. Usually if a name etymology starts with "in the case of" (such as Miley, Elian, and Shania), it means that that's how the specific person (usually a famous person) got the name. Other people with the name might have gotten it from somewhere else.
Sometimes a single name can have multiple possible origins. Coraline is one example. In the book Coraline, the titular character's name came from a typo of Caroline. There are examples of the name's usage that predate the book, in which case it might be a variant of Coralie.
Sometimes a single name can have multiple possible origins. Coraline is one example. In the book Coraline, the titular character's name came from a typo of Caroline. There are examples of the name's usage that predate the book, in which case it might be a variant of Coralie.
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