Tomoe
Meaning
“A Japanese name for a swirling comma-shaped crest; famously borne by Tomoe Gozen, the woman samurai of The Tale of the Heike.”
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Tomoe has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
112 people · the #38,089 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 1,000,000 · median age 76
Among people named Tomoe living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1940s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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