Thomes
Thomes was last recorded in 1980, when 5 babies were given it; 411 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Thomes by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Thomes?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,207, in 1980; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1944, the peak
Thomes peaked in 1944, when 19 boys were given it, #1,622 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 5 | #7,207 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,682 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,489 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,510 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,512 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,572 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,836 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 9 | #3,020 | 4.4 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,630 | 3.3 |
| 1960 | 9 | #3,051 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 7 | #3,584 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 15 | #2,166 | 7.1 |
| 1957 | 9 | #3,004 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,949 | 4.3 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,347 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,036 | 7.8 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,768 | 3.0 |
| 1952 | 8 | #3,081 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 8 | #3,045 | 4.2 |
| 1950 | 7 | #3,293 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,213 | 7.3 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,629 | 3.4 |
| 1947 | 12 | #2,349 | 6.6 |
| 1946 | 11 | #2,390 | 6.8 |
| 1944 | 19 | #1,622 | 13.9 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,544 | 7.0 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,530 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,466 | 4.9 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,455 | 5.4 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,313 | 9.9 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,150 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,170 | 11.6 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,234 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,545 | 9.7 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,740 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,367 | 6.7 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,490 | 4.6 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,955 | 8.4 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,328 | 7.2 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,168 | 5.3 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,355 | 7.2 |
| 1925 | 10 | #2,914 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,623 | 10.6 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,194 | 5.5 |
| 1922 | 10 | #2,991 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,915 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,941 | 9.4 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,118 | 6.1 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,925 | 6.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Thomes a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Thomes has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Thomes: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Thomes, and how old are they?
An estimated 165 Americans named Thomes and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (40% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 64 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 146 people named Thomes (0 women and girls, 146 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 204 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,368,015 babies since 1880, Thomes is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 6,924 babies recorded by SSA was a Thomes (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Thomes
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Thomes and names like it
- Compare Thomes and ThomasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sThomes peaked in 1944.
- The top names of 1944The year the most babies were named Thomes.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Thomes alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.