Nomo

Nomo is a Japanese surname that is romanized from several possible kanji spellings. In Japan the name is relatively uncommon but attested in many regions, and outside Japan it appears among Japanese diaspora communities. The meaning of the name varies with its kanji, and its usage is primarily as a family name rather than a given name in most contexts.

The best-known bearer of the name is Hideo Nomo, a Japanese-born professional baseball pitcher who played in both Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball. Nomo became prominent in the 1990s after moving to MLB, where he helped popularize Japanese players entering the major leagues and contributed to broader international scouting and cross-cultural exchange within the sport. His career in MLB included multiple teams over more than a decade, and his success is often cited as a turning point in the globalization of professional baseball.

In general, Nomo is not widely used outside of Japanese contexts as a given name or title, and there is no single entity universally associated with the term beyond individual bearers of the surname. Spelling variations and transliterations can lead to similar-sounding names in other languages, but those forms are distinct from the Japanese family name Nomo.