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How popular is the name Toms?
Births per year, rank history and how many Tomses are alive today.
Toms (male) last appeared in the England and Wales name records in 2020 (ranked 3848th); fewer than three babies a year have been given the name since. The name peaked in 2015, when 11 babies were given the name, the 2020th most popular that year.
The Toms you are most likely to meet is around 12 years old. Half of all Tomses born in England and Wales are between 9 and 16, and there are at least 98 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Toms - on average, only one in every 3,092 such rooms contains a Toms.
How many babies are named Toms each year?
Where does Toms rank among boys' names?
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 Toms most popular?
Toms peaked in 2015, when 11 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Toms?
At least 98 people named Toms born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Toms?
Most living Tomses are between 9 and 16; the most common age is about 12.
Is Toms becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.