How popular is “Tom” in the USA?

Number of people named “Tom” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Tom” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Tom” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Tom” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Tom” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Tom” by birth year

This chart shows how “Tom” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1880	399	0.001980306		399	-100%
1881	349	0.001811218		349	-100%
1882	390	0.00176046		390	-100%
1883	392	0.001806901	6	386	-97%
1884	394	0.001618329		394	-100%
1885	361	0.001498833		361	-100%
1886	389	0.001523602	6	383	-97%
1887	329	0.001329873		329	-100%
1888	416	0.001389102		416	-100%
1889	379	0.001311664		379	-100%
1890	347	0.00115129		347	-100%
1891	318	0.001109278		318	-100%
1892	381	0.001139443		381	-100%
1893	349	0.00107311		349	-100%
1894	343	0.001012726		343	-100%
1895	341	0.000971455	6	335	-96%
1896	339	0.000948294		339	-100%
1897	298	0.000858896		298	-100%
1898	337	0.000883459		337	-100%
1899	288	0.000848971		288	-100%
1900	469	0.001041625		469	-100%
1901	291	0.000841498		291	-100%
1902	318	0.000822273	6	312	-96%
1903	295	0.000773872		295	-100%
1904	318	0.000788133		318	-100%
1905	317	0.000747779		317	-100%
1906	304	0.000709533	6	298	-96%
1907	320	0.000687595	7	313	-96%
1908	340	0.000695796		340	-100%
1909	340	0.00066507		340	-100%
1910	428	0.000724551		428	-100%
1911	370	0.000574286	5	365	-97%
1912	548	0.000554621	10	538	-96%
1913	578	0.000508306	5	573	-98%
1914	747	0.000527414	12	735	-97%
1915	883	0.000481875	14	869	-97%
1916	986	0.000509714	15	971	-97%
1917	992	0.000494332	11	981	-98%
1918	1120	0.000515865	16	1104	-97%
1919	1073	0.000508472	14	1059	-97%
1920	1222	0.000540076	15	1207	-98%
1921	1103	0.000472477	11	1092	-98%
1922	1097	0.000479216	13	1084	-98%
1923	1144	0.000496855	13	1131	-98%
1924	1111	0.000466491	14	1097	-97%
1925	1236	0.000529721	20	1216	-97%
1926	1262	0.000549674	10	1252	-98%
1927	1282	0.000552739	13	1269	-98%
1928	1322	0.000584713	17	1305	-97%
1929	1286	0.000586636	16	1270	-98%
1930	1349	0.000606759	13	1336	-98%
1931	1371	0.000651496	8	1363	-99%
1932	1551	0.000734622	13	1538	-98%
1933	1435	0.000717698	10	1425	-99%
1934	1579	0.000760298		1579	-100%
1935	1738	0.000831619	13	1725	-99%
1936	1703	0.000819704	8	1695	-99%
1937	1819	0.000853722	12	1807	-99%
1938	1945	0.000879067	14	1931	-99%
1939	2036	0.000924009	8	2028	-99%
1940	2295	0.000996663	8	2287	-99%
1941	2509	0.001029787	9	2500	-99%
1942	2888	0.001057171	13	2875	-99%
1943	2917	0.001033459	7	2910	-100%
1944	2910	0.001081753	9	2901	-99%
1945	2903	0.00109427	10	2893	-99%
1946	3634	0.001137293	10	3624	-99%
1947	3933	0.001091796	11	3922	-99%
1948	3442	0.000996954	13	3429	-99%
1949	2552	0.000732328	9	2543	-99%
1950	1832	0.000522927	9	1823	-99%
1951	1522	0.000413167		1522	-100%
1952	1439	0.000378883		1439	-100%
1953	1382	0.000358622	5	1377	-99%
1954	1394	0.000350189	6	1388	-99%
1955	1519	0.000378324	6	1513	-99%
1956	1924	0.000466646	10	1914	-99%
1957	3352	0.000797688		3352	-100%
1958	4364	0.001055661	6	4358	-100%
1959	5080	0.001221744	12	5068	-100%
1960	4907	0.001181324	11	4896	-100%
1961	4737	0.001143567	10	4727	-100%
1962	4179	0.001035592	7	4172	-100%
1963	3703	0.000935526	6	3697	-100%
1964	3302	0.000849366	8	3294	-100%
1965	2503	0.000690397	6	2497	-100%
1966	1857	0.000534288	7	1850	-99%
1967	1499	0.000441545	8	1491	-99%
1968	1362	0.000403148		1362	-100%
1969	1214	0.00034932		1214	-100%
1970	1130	0.000313322		1130	-100%
1971	872	0.000254053	5	867	-99%
1972	581	0.000184856		581	-100%
1973	459	0.000152144	6	453	-97%
1974	423	0.000139145		423	-100%
1975	303	0.000100351		303	-100%
1976	324	0.000106779	7	317	-96%
1977	285	0.000089722		285	-100%
1978	244	0.000076878		244	-100%
1979	261	0.000078449		261	-100%
1980	235	0.000068225		235	-100%
1981	243	0.000070244		243	-100%
1982	197	0.000056158		197	-100%
1983	200	0.000057748		200	-100%
1984	187	0.000053601		187	-100%
1985	180	0.000050433		180	-100%
1986	188	0.000052852		188	-100%
1987	177	0.00004909		177	-100%
1988	189	0.00005115		189	-100%
1989	189	0.000049162		189	-100%
1990	214	0.000054143		214	-100%
1991	194	0.000049804		194	-100%
1992	151	0.00003931		151	-100%
1993	146	0.000038724		146	-100%
1994	116	0.000031202		116	-100%
1995	134	0.00003659		134	-100%
1996	126	0.000034547		126	-100%
1997	125	0.000034476		125	-100%
1998	132	0.000035887		132	-100%
1999	116	0.000031403		116	-100%
2000	99	0.000026191		99	-100%
2001	96	0.000025645		96	-100%
2002	140	0.00003745		140	-100%
2003	132	0.000034716		132	-100%
2004	107	0.000028004		107	-100%
2005	125	0.000032511		125	-100%
2006	109	0.000027552		109	-100%
2007	94	0.000023514		94	-100%
2008	96	0.000024423		96	-100%
2009	99	0.000025915		99	-100%
2010	80	0.000021647		80	-100%
2011	83	0.000022691		83	-100%
2012	83	0.000022694		83	-100%
2013	82	0.000022492		82	-100%
2014	77	0.000020775		77	-100%
2015	70	0.000018914		70	-100%
2016	70	0.00001908		70	-100%
2017	88	0.000024607		88	-100%
2018	66	0.000018772		66	-100%
2019	87	0.000025065		87	-100%
2020	58	0.000017362		58	-100%
2021	64	0.00001889		64	-100%
2022	60	0.000017735		60	-100%
2023	50	0.0000151		50	-100%
2024	46	0.00001382		46	-100%

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