Tomie
Tomie was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 1,380 Americans have been recorded with it between 1886 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tomie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tomie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,247, in 1983; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
53 babies in 1919, the peak
Tomie peaked in 1919, when 53 babies were given it (39 boys, #1,120 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #15,021 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,271 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,283 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,709 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,521 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,651 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,849 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,132 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,278 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #7,247 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 6 | #10,333 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,131 | 6 | #5,993 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,565 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 10 | #6,019 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,988 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,336 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,327 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,610 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 5 | #4,691 | |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,949 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,730 | 6 | #3,998 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,260 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,813 | 5 | #4,589 |
| 1960 | under 5 | 7 | #3,636 | |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,129 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 6 | #3,907 | |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,277 | 7 | #3,514 |
| 1955 | under 5 | 8 | #3,184 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 6 | #3,792 | |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,324 | 9 | #2,857 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,789 | 9 | #2,834 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,248 | 7 | #3,298 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,633 | 5 | #4,160 |
| 1947 | under 5 | 10 | #2,658 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 8 | #2,902 | |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,530 | 8 | #2,846 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,649 | 10 | #2,547 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,417 | 10 | #2,511 |
| 1941 | under 5 | 9 | #2,636 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 10 | #2,465 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 16 | #1,788 | |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,429 | 10 | #2,472 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,863 | 17 | #1,744 |
| 1936 | under 5 | 6 | #3,514 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 15 | #1,918 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 14 | #2,013 | |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,798 | 15 | #1,899 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,538 | 21 | #1,580 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,196 | 18 | #1,763 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,312 | 16 | #1,955 |
| 1929 | 16 | #2,175 | 22 | #1,602 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,151 | 20 | #1,753 |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,161 | 26 | #1,511 |
| 1926 | 11 | #3,023 | 26 | #1,463 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,113 | 24 | #1,577 |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,862 | 26 | #1,529 |
| 1923 | 18 | #2,160 | 21 | #1,747 |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,179 | 26 | #1,502 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,922 | 26 | #1,504 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,574 | 24 | #1,588 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,496 | 39 | #1,120 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,280 | 27 | #1,398 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,416 | 19 | #1,748 |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,087 | 25 | #1,413 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,220 | 30 | #1,212 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,568 | 22 | #1,298 |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,146 | 18 | #1,247 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,392 | 17 | #1,169 |
| 1911 | under 5 | 15 | #892 | |
| 1910 | under 5 | 11 | #1,036 | |
| 1909 | under 5 | 15 | #751 | |
| 1908 | under 5 | 7 | #1,203 | |
| 1907 | under 5 | 11 | #858 | |
| 1906 | under 5 | 8 | #995 | |
| 1905 | under 5 | 9 | #914 | |
| 1904 | under 5 | 6 | #1,189 | |
| 1903 | under 5 | 5 | #1,292 | |
| 1902 | under 5 | 11 | #736 | |
| 1901 | under 5 | 6 | #1,049 | |
| 1900 | under 5 | 7 | #1,151 | |
| 1898 | under 5 | 9 | #798 | |
| 1897 | under 5 | 5 | #1,215 | |
| 1896 | under 5 | 5 | #1,257 | |
| 1893 | under 5 | 9 | #764 | |
| 1892 | under 5 | 10 | #745 | |
| 1891 | under 5 | 7 | #833 | |
| 1886 | under 5 | 6 | #954 |
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 Tomie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,380 Americans recorded as Tomie, 34% are girls and 66% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tomie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tomie, and how old are they?
An estimated 296 Americans named Tomie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (21% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 47 and 76. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 556 people named Tomie (373 women and girls, 183 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 371 born in the U.S. The Census count is 50% above 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Tomie?
Tomie is a less common spelling of Tommy: SSA has recorded 1,380 Tomie and 181,675 Tommy since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 236,912 babies since 1880, Tomie is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 592 babies recorded by SSA was a Tomie (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 Tomie
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 Tomie and names like it
- Compare Tomie and TommyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sTomie peaked in 1919.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tomie since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Tomie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Tomie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.