Tommye
Tommye was last recorded in 1979, when 5 babies were given it; 1,508 Americans have been recorded with it between 1902 and 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tommye by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tommye?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,566, in 1977; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
51 babies in 1942, the peak
Tommye peaked in 1942, when 51 girls were given it, #1,113 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 6 | #9,566 | 3.9 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,846 | 5.5 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,325 | 4.6 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,610 | 4.9 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,771 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,770 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,499 | 7.9 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,514 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,769 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,591 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 17 | #3,091 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,857 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,855 | 8.9 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,676 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 24 | #2,316 | 12.0 |
| 1955 | 23 | #2,337 | 11.8 |
| 1954 | 27 | #2,070 | 13.9 |
| 1953 | 29 | #1,923 | 15.4 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,323 | 11.3 |
| 1951 | 33 | #1,698 | 18.3 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,116 | 12.8 |
| 1949 | 24 | #2,007 | 14.0 |
| 1948 | 39 | #1,491 | 23.0 |
| 1947 | 41 | #1,484 | 23.1 |
| 1946 | 43 | #1,334 | 27.4 |
| 1945 | 42 | #1,247 | 32.1 |
| 1944 | 44 | #1,200 | 33.2 |
| 1943 | 39 | #1,321 | 28.0 |
| 1942 | 51 | #1,113 | 37.8 |
| 1941 | 25 | #1,603 | 20.7 |
| 1940 | 34 | #1,290 | 29.7 |
| 1939 | 37 | #1,217 | 33.7 |
| 1938 | 30 | #1,375 | 27.2 |
| 1937 | 43 | #1,095 | 40.4 |
| 1936 | 35 | #1,228 | 33.6 |
| 1935 | 43 | #1,072 | 41.0 |
| 1934 | 33 | #1,258 | 31.6 |
| 1933 | 26 | #1,466 | 25.8 |
| 1932 | 28 | #1,447 | 26.2 |
| 1931 | 37 | #1,198 | 34.8 |
| 1930 | 25 | #1,603 | 22.2 |
| 1929 | 28 | #1,479 | 25.1 |
| 1928 | 30 | #1,462 | 26.0 |
| 1927 | 30 | #1,516 | 25.2 |
| 1926 | 31 | #1,479 | 26.2 |
| 1925 | 28 | #1,601 | 23.0 |
| 1924 | 25 | #1,763 | 20.0 |
| 1923 | 22 | #1,890 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,677 | 21.6 |
| 1921 | 23 | #1,860 | 18.7 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,878 | 10.0 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,795 | 10.6 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,640 | 21.6 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,987 | 16.6 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,796 | 19.2 |
| 1915 | 16 | #2,040 | 16.3 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,418 | 13.1 |
| 1913 | 11 | #2,015 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,939 | 10.8 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,843 | 20.9 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,704 | 23.7 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,207 | 17.1 |
| 1902 | 5 | #2,017 | 18.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tommye a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,508 Americans recorded as Tommye, 97% are girls and 3% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tommye: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tommye, and how old are they?
An estimated 594 Americans named Tommye and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (39% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 70 and 83. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 852 people named Tommye (776 women and girls, 76 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 766 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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).
Where are babies named Tommye born?
The states with the most babies named Tommye are Texas, Tennessee and Mississippi, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee and Mississippi are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 409 | not ranked | 4.9× |
| Tennessee | 58 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Mississippi | 51 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Oklahoma | 38 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Arkansas | 29 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Tommye is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tommye is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 4.9 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 girls’ 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 Tommye 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,508 babies since 1880, Tommye is the second most given (43% of them). In 2025 none of their 35 babies recorded by SSA was a Tommye (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 Tommye
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1900-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Earlean | 2,585 | |
| Earnestine | 16,134 | |
| Nelda | 20,144 | |
| Wilhelmenia | 1,125 | |
| Fayetta | 1,061 | |
| Pearlene | 1,958 |
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 Tommye and names like it
- Compare Tommye and TommiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sTommye peaked in 1942.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tommye since 1910.
- The top names of 1942The year the most babies were named Tommye.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Tommye alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.