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Tommy

boy name
Origin
Aramaic
Syllables
2
Peak era
1930s/1960s
Today
▬ Steady

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Meaning

diminutive of Thomas, from Aramaic Ta'oma, 'twin'

Famously borne by Tommy Caldwell, who made the first free ascent of El Capitan's Dawn Wall with Kevin Jorgeson.

The story

Tommy is Thomas at its friendliest, the ancient Aramaic name Ta'oma, meaning twin, worn down to something you could shout across a backyard. It has long stood on its own two feet: in Britain, Tommy became the affectionate name for the common soldier, the Tommies of the world wars, and in America plenty of boys were Tommy on the birth certificate itself, no Thomas behind it. That habit crested at midcentury, and the chart runs at its highest from the 1930s through the 1960s, the heyday of ballplayers and paperboys named Tommy. Since then it has settled rather than sunk, holding a steady middle level for half a century as most parents moved the full Thomas onto paper while keeping Tommy for the kitchen table. Easygoing and durable, it remains one of the most instantly likable names in the book.

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The formal names behind Tommy

Tommy is an established short form of this name.

Thomas · Aramaic origin · twin

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Tommy's name family

One shared root links 5 names across 2 languages.

Shared root: from Aramaic ta'oma "twin"

The constellation

TommyEnglish · short formThomasEnglishTomasSpanish

More branches

TomEnglish · short formTommieEnglish · short form

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How popular is Tommy around the world?

In the United States, 2,317 babies were named Tommy between 2020 and 2025. In Scotland, 154 boys named Tommy were registered in 2024, the 20th most common name among boys that year.

Tommy is on the official records of the United States, Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales, New Zealand, New South Wales, South Australia, Canada, France, Chile, Austria, Mexico City, Argentina, Poland, Spain and Brazil.

United States

1 in 9,400

In the United States, 2,317 babies were named Tommy between 2020 and 2025.

1890speak 1930s2020s

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Tommy peaked in the 1930s and the 1960s in nearly equal measure.

Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration

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Scotland

1 in 300

In Scotland, 154 boys named Tommy were registered in 2024, the 20th most common name among boys that year.

1974peak 2022

share of that year’s name registrations

Births registered in Scotland; different spellings count separately but accents are merged at source, and any spelling under 3 in total is suppressed. Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names

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Ireland

1 in 300

In Ireland, 178 boys named Tommy were born in 2025, the 27th most common name among boys that year.

1980peak 2023

share of that year’s name registrations

Exact registered spellings from Irish vital statistics; any name under 3 in a year is withheld at source, and accented spellings (fadas) are recorded reliably only from 2018. Source: Central Statistics Office (Ireland), Irish babies' names

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England and Wales

1 in 500

In England and Wales, 1,160 boys named Tommy were born in 2025, the 44th most common name among boys that year.

1996peak 2020

share of that year’s name registrations

Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales

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New Zealand

1 in 1,100

In New Zealand, 53 boys named Tommy were registered in 2025.

1990peak 2022

share of that year’s name registrations

First given names from New Zealand birth registrations, grouped by registration year; any name under 10 in a year is excluded at source. Shares divide by Stats NZ’s count of births registered to mothers living in New Zealand, under 1% below the registry’s own count. Source: Department of Internal Affairs (New Zealand), baby name popularity over time

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New South Wales

#97 · 2025

In New South Wales, 90 boys named Tommy were registered in 2025, ranked 97th in that year’s top 100 for boys.

2020peak 20232025

share of that year’s top-100 registrations

New South Wales (not all of Australia) publishes only each year’s 100 most popular names per sex, so a missing year means below that top 100, not rare. Source: NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, popular baby names

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South Australia

1 in 2,600 · 2017

In South Australia, 7 boys were registered as Tommy in 2017.
The count never rose above 7 in a year, too few to chart.

Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names

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Canada

1 in 3,200

In Canada, 116 boys named Tommy were born in 2024, the 283rd most common name among boys that year.

peak 19982024

share of that year’s name registrations

First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)

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France

1 in 3,800

In France, about 170 boys named Tommy were born in 2025, the 313th most common name among boys that year.

1950peak 2022

share of that year’s births on record

Births in France by year of birth, from INSEE’s fichier des prénoms (1900–2025; Mayotte from 2012); exact spellings count separately (Léo and Leo are different names), any spelling under 3 in a year and sex is withheld at source, every count is rounded to the nearest 5 at source, and nametree keeps the spellings that reached 20 in some year. Shares divide by INSEE’s count of births in France from 1957, and before that by the file’s own total for the year; INSEE says the file is not complete before 1946. Source: Insee, fichier des prénoms (last updated 2026-07-16)

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Chile

1 in 14,000

In Chile, 13 boys were registered as Tommy in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.

1920peak 2021

share of that year’s name registrations

First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021

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Austria

1 in 15,000

In Austria, 5 boys named Tommy were born in 2025, the 720th most common name among boys that year, spellings that differ only by special characters counted together.
The count never rose above 7 in a year, too few to chart.

Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)

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Mexico City City

1 in 59,000

In Mexico City, there were 2 registrations of Tommy in 2022.
The count never rose above 8 in a year, too few to chart.

Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023, a partial extract through 3 Mar with no cell on record for this name, is excluded. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023

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Argentina

1 in 66,000

In Argentina, 10 newborns were given the name Tommy in 2024.

peak 20142024

share of that year’s name registrations

Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024

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Poland

1 in 82,000

In Poland, 3 boys named Tommy were born in 2025, the 581st most common name among boys that year.
The count never rose above 8 in a year, too few to chart.

First names given to children born in Poland by year of birth, 2000–2025, from the PESEL population register (Ministry of Digital Affairs); exact spellings count separately (Łukasz and Lukasz are different names), names given fewer than 5 times in a year were left off the list through 2012 and fewer than 2 times from 2013, and the register also counts children born abroad, so its yearly sums run above Poland’s live births. Shares divide by the register’s own published total for the year, never by births. Source: Ministry of Digital Affairs, PESEL register (dane.gov.pl)

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Spain

1 in 260,000

In Spain, 171 residents are named Tommy, ranked 5,274th among men, with a mean age of 28.5 years.

Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025

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Brazil

1 in 1M

At the 2022 census, 252 people in Brazil were named Tommy, ranked 21,580th, with a median age of 34.
Among people named Tommy living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1980s than in any other decade.

1970speak 1980s2010s

people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth

The census also counted 23 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart. People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022

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Montevideo City

last on record 2008

Tommy is not on the 2011 record for Montevideo, whose registry withholds nothing, so the spelling was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 3 in a year, too few to chart.

Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial

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Norway

last on record 2024

Tommy is not on the 2025 record for Norway, where names carried by fewer than 4 people in a year are withheld at source.

1945peak 19732025

share of the boys on the register for that year, SSB’s own figure

People who have or have had a Norwegian ID number, emigrants left out, from Statistics Norway’s name statistics (release of January 2026): by year of birth for 1945–2020 (everyone born that year who was ever registered in Norway, including people who registered later and people who have since died) and by year of naming from 2021; only first names carried by 200 or more living people are listed, counts under 4 are withheld, and SSB merges spellings that differ only by letters outside the Norwegian alphabet. The shares are SSB’s own, of the people of that sex and year in that count; the 2025 figure counts the children named that year, and no year is a count of births. Source: Statistics Norway (SSB), table 10467 (updated 2026-01-28)

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Puerto Rico

last on record 2007

Tommy is not on the 2025 record for Puerto Rico, which withholds births under 5, and 59 babies have carried the name there since 1998.

peak 19982025

share of that year’s births on record

First given name only, from Social Security records of births in Puerto Rico; any name-sex-year under 5 births is withheld at source. Shares divide by the Puerto Rico Demographic Registry’s count of births on the island; the 2025 count is provisional. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, territory name file (Puerto Rico)

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When you meet Tommy

People given the name Tommy in the United States span the generations: the middle half were born anywhere from 1950 to 1989. Age is the one thing the name won't tell you.

Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.

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