Tom
Tom is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 46 births. Its best rank was 40th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 460.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19595,068 births
- Best rank
- #40in 1880
- Since 1880
- 139,689people given the name
The story in the numbers
139,689 boys have been named Tom in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 5,068 births — 0.24% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 46 births in 2024, against 5,068 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 1940s alone account for 21%. It has spent 116 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 46 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Tom | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 3,786 | |
| 1890s | 3,335 | |
| 1900s | 3,293 | |
| 1910s | 7,623 | |
| 1920s | 11,923 | |
| 1930s | 16,427 | |
| 1940s | 29,884 | |
| 1950s | 23,754 | |
| 1960s | 29,200 | |
| 1970s | 4,864 | |
| 1980s | 1,985 | |
| 1990s | 1,454 | |
| 2000s | 1,097 | |
| 2010s | 786 | |
| 2020s | 278 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Tom was the 82nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1959 were Michael, David, James, John and Robert. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Tom
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jimpeak 1959
- Davepeak 1959
- Dellpeak 1953
- Artpeak 1961
- Guypeak 1957
- Lenpeak 1960
- Willampeak 1959
- Johnpeak 1947
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.