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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.

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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.