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How popular is the name Tommy?
Births per year, rank history and how many Tommies are alive today.
Tommy (male) is currently the 44th most popular boys' name in England and Wales, with 1,160 babies given the name in 2025. This spelling of the name peaked in 2020, when 2,013 babies were given the name, the 22nd most popular that year. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 26,000 babies have been named Tommy in England and Wales since 1996. Tommy is one spelling of a name also recorded as Tommie; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Tommy you are most likely to meet is around 6 years old. Half of all Tommies born in England and Wales are between 5 and 16, and there are at least 29,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 9.1% chance that at least one of them will be called Tommy.
How many babies are named Tommy each year?
Includes all spellings: Tommy, Tommie. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Tommy spelling rank?
Where does the Tommie spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Tommy most popular?
Tommy peaked in 2020, when 2,078 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Tommy?
At least 29,000 people named Tommy in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Tommy?
Most living Tommies are between 5 and 16; the most common age is about 6.
Is Tommy becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.