Homay is from the Persian هما (Homā — phoenix-like bird of paradise + auspicious omen). Homay is one of the Persian feminine names — central to traditional Persian mythological + Zoroastrian heritage. Princess Homay-e Chehrazad is the legendary Kayanian Empire queen in Ferdowsi's epic Shahnameh (Book of Kings, c.
Homay does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Homay reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.