Toma
Toma was given to 26 boys in 2025, #4,130 among boys’ names; 874 Americans have been recorded with it since 1929 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Toma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Toma?
#4,130 among boys’ names, 2025
Toma rose from #5,719 in 2015 to #4,130 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 8.3 to 15.2 per million.
105 babies in 1974, the peak
Toma peaked in 1974, when 105 babies were given it (84 boys, #884 among boys’ names). The 26 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 26 | #4,130 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 18 | #5,416 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 19 | #5,227 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 24 | #4,419 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 18 | #5,314 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 16 | #5,671 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 7 | #10,704 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 18 | #5,293 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 15 | #6,035 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 11 | #7,550 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 16 | #5,719 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 14 | #6,273 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 11 | #7,494 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 7 | #10,647 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 17 | #5,405 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 12 | #7,038 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 11 | #7,637 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 9 | #8,938 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 8 | #9,491 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 11 | #7,055 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 6 | #11,215 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 8 | #8,555 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 11 | #6,481 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 8 | #8,248 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 14 | #5,271 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 8 | #7,811 | |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,981 | 5 | #11,157 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 8 | #7,216 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 9 | #6,444 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 9 | #6,354 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 9 | #6,176 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 5 | #9,688 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 7 | #7,204 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #9,109 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #8,397 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #8,041 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #7,240 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 9 | #4,559 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #6,174 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 14 | #3,156 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 23 | #2,127 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 18 | #2,548 | |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,242 | 18 | #2,500 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,986 | 27 | #1,828 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,309 | 84 | #884 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,224 | 44 | #1,250 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,910 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,546 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,790 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,411 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,770 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,510 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,729 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,797 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,050 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 6 | #6,029 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,276 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,705 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,323 | under 5 | |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,148 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,699 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,987 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,961 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,214 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,356 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,547 | under 5 | |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,211 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Toma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 874 Americans recorded as Toma, 25% are girls and 75% boys. In 2025 it went to 26 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Toma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Toma, and how old are they?
An estimated 801 Americans named Toma and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 12 and 52. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,132 people named Toma (335 women and girls, 797 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 705 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Toma rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 184,659 babies since 1880, Toma is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 481 babies (5.4%), the second most given that year.
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.
More about Toma and names like it
- Compare Toma and TommyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sToma peaked in 1974.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Toma since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Toma.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Toma alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.