Nokomis is the Ojibwe-Algonquin word for "my grandmother," specifically maternal grandmother — used both as kinship term and personal name. In Algonquin and Ojibwe tradition, Nokomis is the moon-mother and grandmother figure who fell from the sky world and raised her grandson Manabozho (the trickster-creator). *Henry Wadsworth Longfellow drew on this tradition for The Song of Hiawatha (1855), where Nokomis raises Hiawatha after his mother Wenonah's death — "Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis." The name has been used by several towns and lakes in Minnesota* (Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis) and the Atlantic-coast resort community of Nokomis, Florida.
Featured throughout Longfellow's Hiawatha and Anishinaabe oral tradition.
Nokomis 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nokomis reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.