Tomas
Tomas was given to 394 boys in 2025, #691 among boys’ names; 30,730 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 24,400 Americans named Tomas and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 17 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tomas by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tomas mean?
Wiktionary, Tagalog section
Tomas is “a male given name from Spanish, equivalent to English Thomas” Its etymology gives the sense “twin” (תאומא).
Borrowed from Spanish Tomás, from Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς (Thōmâs), the Biblical Greek transcription of Aramaic תאומא (te’oma, “twin”). Doublet of Thomas.
/toˈmas/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Tagalog section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tomas?
#691 among boys’ names, 2025
Tomas rose from #721 in 2015 to #691 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.18 to 0.23 per 1,000.
537 babies in 2003, the peak
Tomas peaked in 2003, when 537 boys were given it, #468 among boys’ names. The 394 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 394 | #691 | 0.23 |
| 2024 | 355 | #737 | 0.21 |
| 2023 | 367 | #725 | 0.21 |
| 2022 | 385 | #691 | 0.22 |
| 2021 | 344 | #741 | 0.20 |
| 2020 | 355 | #708 | 0.21 |
| 2019 | 373 | #687 | 0.21 |
| 2018 | 341 | #712 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 352 | #701 | 0.19 |
| 2016 | 345 | #711 | 0.18 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 342 | #721 | 0.18 |
| 2014 | 390 | #660 | 0.20 |
| 2013 | 347 | #692 | 0.18 |
| 2012 | 358 | #661 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 370 | #634 | 0.19 |
| 2010 | 385 | #633 | 0.20 |
| 2009 | 461 | #574 | 0.23 |
| 2008 | 475 | #555 | 0.23 |
| 2007 | 489 | #527 | 0.24 |
| 2006 | 535 | #487 | 0.26 |
| 2005 | 509 | #489 | 0.25 |
| 2004 | 515 | #482 | 0.26 |
| 2003 | 537 | #468 | 0.27 |
| 2002 | 523 | #462 | 0.27 |
| 2001 | 492 | #480 | 0.25 |
| 2000 | 494 | #475 | 0.25 |
| 1999 | 453 | #489 | 0.24 |
| 1998 | 495 | #455 | 0.26 |
| 1997 | 456 | #473 | 0.24 |
| 1996 | 510 | #439 | 0.27 |
| 1995 | 464 | #472 | 0.24 |
| 1994 | 462 | #470 | 0.24 |
| 1993 | 421 | #495 | 0.21 |
| 1992 | 435 | #483 | 0.22 |
| 1991 | 426 | #477 | 0.21 |
| 1990 | 393 | #489 | 0.19 |
| 1989 | 368 | #499 | 0.18 |
| 1988 | 353 | #490 | 0.18 |
| 1987 | 315 | #504 | 0.17 |
| 1986 | 330 | #480 | 0.18 |
| 1985 | 325 | #483 | 0.18 |
| 1984 | 339 | #455 | 0.19 |
| 1983 | 297 | #489 | 0.17 |
| 1982 | 301 | #490 | 0.17 |
| 1981 | 332 | #456 | 0.19 |
| 1980 | 359 | #434 | 0.20 |
| 1979 | 263 | #520 | 0.15 |
| 1978 | 269 | #495 | 0.16 |
| 1977 | 281 | #482 | 0.17 |
| 1976 | 285 | #465 | 0.18 |
| 1975 | 264 | #490 | 0.17 |
| 1974 | 266 | #493 | 0.17 |
| 1973 | 250 | #495 | 0.16 |
| 1972 | 254 | #496 | 0.16 |
| 1971 | 232 | #528 | 0.13 |
| 1970 | 250 | #509 | 0.13 |
| 1969 | 208 | #544 | 0.12 |
| 1968 | 226 | #502 | 0.13 |
| 1967 | 202 | #527 | 0.12 |
| 1966 | 220 | #512 | 0.12 |
| 1965 | 192 | #555 | 0.10 |
| 1964 | 196 | #566 | 0.10 |
| 1963 | 200 | #560 | 0.10 |
| 1962 | 225 | #533 | 0.11 |
| 1961 | 199 | #557 | 0.09 |
| 1960 | 203 | #555 | 0.10 |
| 1959 | 194 | #559 | 0.09 |
| 1958 | 212 | #529 | 0.10 |
| 1957 | 199 | #547 | 0.09 |
| 1956 | 184 | #560 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 194 | #526 | 0.09 |
| 1954 | 171 | #558 | 0.08 |
| 1953 | 188 | #514 | 0.10 |
| 1952 | 207 | #489 | 0.11 |
| 1951 | 174 | #517 | 0.09 |
| 1950 | 175 | #508 | 0.10 |
| 1949 | 199 | #467 | 0.11 |
| 1948 | 174 | #500 | 0.10 |
| 1947 | 188 | #491 | 0.10 |
| 1946 | 173 | #489 | 0.11 |
| 1945 | 163 | #469 | 0.12 |
| 1944 | 146 | #502 | 0.11 |
| 1943 | 157 | #494 | 0.11 |
| 1942 | 142 | #516 | 0.10 |
| 1941 | 147 | #483 | 0.12 |
| 1940 | 111 | #564 | 0.10 |
| 1939 | 110 | #549 | 0.10 |
| 1938 | 154 | #467 | 0.14 |
| 1937 | 123 | #522 | 0.12 |
| 1936 | 144 | #470 | 0.14 |
| 1935 | 135 | #493 | 0.13 |
| 1934 | 145 | #470 | 0.14 |
| 1933 | 119 | #522 | 0.12 |
| 1932 | 130 | #507 | 0.12 |
| 1931 | 114 | #549 | 0.11 |
| 1930 | 157 | #475 | 0.14 |
| 1929 | 139 | #498 | 0.13 |
| 1928 | 159 | #484 | 0.14 |
| 1927 | 158 | #482 | 0.14 |
| 1926 | 149 | #493 | 0.13 |
| 1925 | 147 | #502 | 0.13 |
| 1924 | 143 | #528 | 0.13 |
| 1923 | 159 | #484 | 0.15 |
| 1922 | 141 | #525 | 0.13 |
| 1921 | 121 | #575 | 0.11 |
| 1920 | 114 | #586 | 0.11 |
| 1919 | 93 | #632 | 0.09 |
| 1918 | 89 | #656 | 0.09 |
| 1917 | 69 | #760 | 0.07 |
| 1916 | 78 | #676 | 0.09 |
| 1915 | 63 | #758 | 0.07 |
| 1914 | 62 | #644 | 0.09 |
| 1913 | 50 | #636 | 0.10 |
| 1912 | 55 | #545 | 0.13 |
| 1911 | 20 | #729 | 0.09 |
| 1910 | 43 | #412 | 0.22 |
| 1909 | 27 | #502 | 0.16 |
| 1908 | 18 | #629 | 0.12 |
| 1907 | 29 | #437 | 0.20 |
| 1906 | 17 | #587 | 0.13 |
| 1905 | 18 | #568 | 0.14 |
| 1904 | 21 | #479 | 0.16 |
| 1903 | 16 | #574 | 0.13 |
| 1902 | 19 | #504 | 0.15 |
| 1901 | 15 | #531 | 0.14 |
| 1900 | 16 | #647 | 0.11 |
| 1899 | 17 | #480 | 0.16 |
| 1898 | 14 | #605 | 0.11 |
| 1897 | 11 | #677 | 0.10 |
| 1896 | 19 | #479 | 0.16 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,073 | 0.05 |
| 1894 | 10 | #724 | 0.09 |
| 1893 | 8 | #830 | 0.07 |
| 1892 | 15 | #541 | 0.12 |
| 1891 | 6 | #951 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 16 | #483 | 0.14 |
| 1889 | 9 | #718 | 0.08 |
| 1888 | 15 | #526 | 0.12 |
| 1887 | 7 | #816 | 0.07 |
| 1886 | 20 | #402 | 0.18 |
| 1885 | 17 | #458 | 0.16 |
| 1884 | 18 | #447 | 0.16 |
| 1883 | 13 | #523 | 0.12 |
| 1882 | 17 | #449 | 0.15 |
| 1881 | 18 | #411 | 0.18 |
| 1880 | 18 | #423 | 0.16 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tomas a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tomas has been given almost only to boys: 27 girls in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tomas: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tomas, and how old are they?
24,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 79% of the 30,730 Americans ever recorded as Tomas. The median Tomas alive today is 30 years old; half are between 17 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 43,589 people named Tomas (154 women and girls, 43,435 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 23,256 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 492 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,430 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,570 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,790 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,420 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,660 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Tomas born?
The states with the most babies named Tomas are Texas, California and Florida, with 56% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 68 | #499 | 3.5× |
| California | 68 | #470 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 56 | #355 | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 23 | #468 | 0.7× |
| New York | 22 | #690 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 11 | #846 | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #698 | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #503 | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 9 | #714 | 1.7× |
| Washington | 9 | #729 | 0.7× |
Where Tomas is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tomas is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1910 it was given 4.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tomas with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 30,787 babies since 1880, Tomas is the most given (100% of them). In 2025 it was given to 394 of their 394 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Tomas
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 Tomas and names like it
- Compare Tomas and TommasBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTomas peaked in 2003.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tomas since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Tomas: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Tomas.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tomas alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.