Tomoe
Tomoe was last recorded in 1934, when 6 babies were given it; 57 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 1934 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tomoe by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tomoe mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tomoe is “a female given name from Japanese, found in ethnic-Japanese populations in English-speaking localities, as an ethnic given name, complementing their “English” name.”
From Japanese ともえ (Tomoe).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tomoe?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #4,246, in 1934; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1920, the peak
Tomoe peaked in 1920, when 10 girls were given it, #3,319 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 6 | #4,246 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,904 | 4.7 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,533 | 7.6 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,997 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,339 | 5.8 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,393 | 5.8 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,319 | 8.3 |
| 1917 | 7 | #4,047 | 6.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tomoe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tomoe has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 8 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tomoe: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tomoe, and how old are they?
An estimated 2 Americans named Tomoe and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 280 people named Tomoe (280 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7 born in the U.S. The Census count is 40.0 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.
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 6,712 babies since 1880, Tomoe is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 60 babies recorded by SSA was a Tomoe (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.
More about Tomoe and names like it
- Compare Tomoe and TomiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sTomoe peaked in 1920.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tomoe since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Tomoe: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Tomoe.
- Names starting with TMost given first.