Tommy
#4,067 for girls in 2025, 35 births · #657 for boys in 2025, 420 births
Given to boys 98.4% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1944 · 3,696 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 21 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 178,733since 1880
Tommy over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,067 | 35 | #657 | 420 |
| 2024 | #5,021 | 26 | #731 | 360 |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 | #689 | 387 |
| 2022 | #6,984 | 16 | #726 | 358 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #732 | 351 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #744 | 326 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #698 | 361 |
| 2018 | — | #721 | 332 | |
| 2017 | — | #710 | 345 | |
| 2016 | — | #754 | 322 | |
| 2015 | — | #706 | 355 | |
| 2014 | — | #723 | 333 | |
| 2013 | — | #658 | 368 | |
| 2012 | — | #625 | 388 | |
| 2011 | — | #636 | 368 | |
| 2010 | — | #595 | 420 | |
| 2009 | — | #560 | 471 | |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #517 | 525 |
| 2007 | — | #488 | 543 | |
| 2006 | — | #461 | 586 | |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #426 | 626 |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 | #393 | 686 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #390 | 670 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #343 | 801 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #331 | 842 |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 | #307 | 959 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #298 | 959 |
| 1998 | — | #298 | 951 | |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #280 | 995 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | #308 | 862 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #311 | 852 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #316 | 831 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | #322 | 820 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 | #302 | 884 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #289 | 903 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | #270 | 981 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #263 | 958 |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 | #250 | 946 |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | #239 | 987 |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 | #239 | 965 |
| 1985 | #4,455 | 17 | #237 | 981 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 | #230 | 975 |
| 1983 | #3,806 | 20 | #224 | 1,007 |
| 1982 | #4,347 | 17 | #210 | 1,171 |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 | #204 | 1,213 |
| 1980 | #3,853 | 20 | #197 | 1,259 |
| 1979 | #3,236 | 25 | #187 | 1,278 |
| 1978 | #3,098 | 25 | #177 | 1,321 |
| 1977 | #3,002 | 26 | #177 | 1,332 |
| 1976 | #3,287 | 21 | #170 | 1,393 |
| 1975 | #2,411 | 33 | #156 | 1,554 |
| 1974 | #2,433 | 31 | #155 | 1,579 |
| 1973 | #1,979 | 41 | #143 | 1,731 |
| 1972 | #1,804 | 47 | #146 | 1,773 |
| 1971 | #1,805 | 49 | #148 | 1,994 |
| 1970 | #1,584 | 60 | #148 | 2,220 |
| 1969 | #1,499 | 62 | #134 | 2,249 |
| 1968 | #1,678 | 48 | #124 | 2,369 |
| 1967 | #1,460 | 58 | #127 | 2,356 |
| 1966 | #1,736 | 42 | #124 | 2,465 |
| 1965 | #1,394 | 62 | #119 | 2,719 |
| 1964 | #1,686 | 47 | #108 | 3,205 |
| 1963 | #1,623 | 49 | #107 | 3,498 |
| 1962 | #1,917 | 36 | #109 | 3,415 |
| 1961 | #1,580 | 51 | #116 | 3,406 |
| 1960 | #1,673 | 45 | #112 | 3,683 |
| 1959 | #1,617 | 45 | #108 | 3,772 |
| 1958 | #1,435 | 55 | #104 | 3,833 |
| 1957 | #1,869 | 34 | #102 | 3,679 |
| 1956 | #1,931 | 31 | #115 | 3,109 |
| 1955 | #1,803 | 34 | #108 | 3,177 |
| 1954 | #1,987 | 28 | #100 | 3,407 |
| 1953 | #1,872 | 29 | #95 | 3,469 |
| 1952 | #1,820 | 30 | #97 | 3,512 |
| 1951 | #1,842 | 28 | #94 | 3,582 |
| 1950 | #1,871 | 26 | #94 | 3,434 |
| 1949 | #1,882 | 26 | #84 | 3,886 |
| 1948 | #1,778 | 28 | #79 | 4,220 |
| 1947 | #1,217 | 55 | #79 | 4,594 |
| 1946 | #1,508 | 34 | #77 | 4,144 |
| 1945 | #1,374 | 34 | #75 | 3,449 |
| 1944 | #1,115 | 49 | #70 | 3,696 |
| 1943 | #1,664 | 26 | #77 | 3,611 |
| 1942 | #1,055 | 55 | #73 | 3,532 |
| 1941 | #1,222 | 38 | #71 | 3,087 |
| 1940 | #1,347 | 31 | #76 | 2,827 |
| 1939 | #1,102 | 42 | #77 | 2,622 |
| 1938 | #1,045 | 47 | #77 | 2,667 |
| 1937 | #1,255 | 33 | #84 | 2,326 |
| 1936 | #1,186 | 36 | #91 | 2,108 |
| 1935 | #1,219 | 34 | #95 | 2,032 |
| 1934 | #1,221 | 34 | #98 | 1,937 |
| 1933 | #1,224 | 34 | #109 | 1,630 |
| 1932 | #1,237 | 34 | #109 | 1,613 |
| 1931 | #1,127 | 40 | #115 | 1,536 |
| 1930 | #1,251 | 36 | #127 | 1,386 |
| 1929 | #1,119 | 43 | #144 | 1,164 |
| 1928 | #1,029 | 53 | #151 | 1,062 |
| 1927 | #1,172 | 43 | #170 | 878 |
| 1926 | #1,045 | 51 | #192 | 751 |
| 1925 | #1,064 | 51 | #201 | 705 |
| 1924 | #1,279 | 39 | #240 | 568 |
| 1923 | #1,598 | 27 | #255 | 479 |
| 1922 | #1,430 | 32 | #252 | 498 |
| 1921 | #1,298 | 36 | #277 | 400 |
| 1920 | #1,751 | 23 | #309 | 344 |
| 1919 | #1,297 | 35 | #325 | 298 |
| 1918 | #1,214 | 38 | #332 | 297 |
| 1917 | #1,605 | 23 | #341 | 262 |
| 1916 | #1,949 | 17 | #381 | 210 |
| 1915 | #1,571 | 22 | #387 | 193 |
| 1914 | #1,818 | 14 | #346 | 181 |
| 1913 | #1,883 | 11 | #387 | 120 |
| 1912 | #1,981 | 9 | #404 | 91 |
| 1911 | — | #322 | 71 | |
| 1910 | #1,773 | 8 | #270 | 82 |
| 1909 | #1,763 | 7 | #296 | 59 |
| 1908 | #1,862 | 6 | #287 | 57 |
| 1907 | — | #322 | 44 | |
| 1906 | — | #411 | 28 | |
| 1905 | #1,298 | 9 | #329 | 37 |
| 1904 | — | #354 | 32 | |
| 1903 | #1,137 | 10 | #282 | 44 |
| 1902 | — | #348 | 32 | |
| 1901 | — | #318 | 31 | |
| 1900 | — | #330 | 42 | |
| 1899 | — | #402 | 21 | |
| 1898 | — | #485 | 18 | |
| 1897 | — | #515 | 15 | |
| 1896 | — | #500 | 17 | |
| 1895 | #1,592 | 5 | #437 | 20 |
| 1894 | — | #543 | 14 | |
| 1893 | — | #459 | 16 | |
| 1892 | — | #497 | 16 | |
| 1891 | — | #700 | 8 | |
| 1890 | — | #511 | 14 | |
| 1889 | — | #673 | 9 | |
| 1888 | — | #648 | 10 | |
| 1887 | — | #392 | 18 | |
| 1886 | — | #512 | 13 | |
| 1885 | — | #765 | 7 | |
| 1884 | — | #848 | 6 | |
| 1883 | — | #556 | 11 | |
| 1882 | — | #754 | 7 | |
| 1881 | — | #653 | 8 | |
| 1880 | — | #909 | 5 | |
First appearance
1880
In the first year the SSA published name data, Tommy was already there! It came in at #909, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1880, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Tommy is popular in 1889
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Tommy
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 74 spots since 2024 (#731 → #657)
- 87 spots since 2020 (#744 → #657)
- 49 spots since 2015 (#706 → #657)
- Biggest jump: 256 spots in 1881 (#909 → #653)
- Biggest drop: 292 spots in 1884 (#556 → #848)
Rise & fade · boys
64 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1944 at #70 (3,696 births)
- Births halved by 1972, 28 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 100 for 21 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 21 yrs · run 1934–1954
- Top 1,000: 146 yrs · run 1880–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 369
- Highest: 1 in 369 boys born in 1944 were named Tommy (0.27%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,067 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
Era · boys
The 1940s
- 20.7% of all boys named Tommy (37,046) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 94 | #392 (1887) | #671 |
| 1890s | 159 | #402 (1899) | #505 |
| 1900s | 406 | #282 (1903) | #328 |
| 1910s | 1,805 | #270 (1910) | #350 |
| 1920s | 6,849 | #144 (1929) | #219 |
| 1930s | 19,857 | #77 (1938) | #98 |
| 1940s | 37,046 | #70 (1944) | #76 |
| 1950s | 34,974 | #94 (1951) | #102 |
| 1960s | 29,365 | #107 (1963) | #118 |
| 1970s | 16,175 | #143 (1973) | #161 |
| 1980s | 10,462 | #197 (1980) | #229 |
| 1990s | 9,038 | #270 (1990) | #299 |
| 2000s | 6,709 | #307 (2000) | #422 |
| 2010s | 3,592 | #595 (2010) | #683 |
| 2020s | 2,202 | #657 (2025) | #713 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tommy in 1889
boys
#673
9 births · 1 in 12,287 boys
Top boys' names in 1889
More about 1889
boys
110,580 boys got a published name in 1889; 1 in 12,287 of them was named Tommy, which outranked 39.4% of the 1,111 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 38.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).