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How popular is “Tommy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Tommy” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Tommy” 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 “Tommy” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Tommy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Tommy” 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 5 0.000024816 5 -100%
1881 8 0.000041518 8 -100%
1882 7 0.000031598 7 -100%
1883 11 0.000050704 11 -100%
1884 6 0.000024645 6 -100%
1885 7 0.000029063 7 -100%
1886 13 0.000050917 13 -100%
1887 18 0.000072759 18 -100%
1888 10 0.000033392 10 -100%
1889 9 0.000031148 9 -100%
1890 14 0.00004645 14 -100%
1891 8 0.000027906 8 -100%
1892 16 0.000047851 16 -100%
1893 16 0.000049197 16 -100%
1894 14 0.000041336 14 -100%
1895 25 0.000071221 5 20 -60%
1896 17 0.000047555 17 -100%
1897 15 0.000043233 15 -100%
1898 18 0.000047188 18 -100%
1899 21 0.000061904 21 -100%
1900 42 0.00009328 42 -100%
1901 31 0.000089644 31 -100%
1902 32 0.000082744 32 -100%
1903 54 0.000141658 10 44 -63%
1904 32 0.000079309 32 -100%
1905 46 0.000108511 9 37 -61%
1906 28 0.000065352 28 -100%
1907 44 0.000094544 44 -100%
1908 63 0.000128927 6 57 -81%
1909 66 0.000129102 7 59 -79%
1910 90 0.000152359 8 82 -82%
1911 71 0.000110201 71 -100%
1912 100 0.000101208 9 91 -82%
1913 131 0.000115204 11 120 -83%
1914 195 0.000137678 14 181 -86%
1915 215 0.000117331 22 193 -80%
1916 227 0.000117348 17 210 -85%
1917 285 0.000142021 23 262 -84%
1918 335 0.000154299 38 297 -77%
1919 333 0.000157802 35 298 -79%
1920 367 0.0001622 23 344 -87%
1921 436 0.000186763 36 400 -83%
1922 530 0.000231526 32 498 -88%
1923 506 0.000219763 27 479 -89%
1924 607 0.00025487 39 568 -87%
1925 756 0.000324004 51 705 -87%
1926 802 0.000349318 51 751 -87%
1927 921 0.000397093 43 878 -91%
1928 1115 0.000493158 53 1062 -90%
1929 1207 0.000550598 43 1164 -93%
1930 1422 0.000639593 36 1386 -95%
1931 1576 0.000748911 40 1536 -95%
1932 1647 0.000780091 34 1613 -96%
1933 1664 0.00083223 34 1630 -96%
1934 1972 0.00094953 34 1938 -97%
1935 2065 0.000988086 34 2031 -97%
1936 2143 0.00103149 36 2107 -97%
1937 2360 0.001107633 33 2327 -97%
1938 2714 0.001226626 47 2667 -97%
1939 2664 0.001209017 42 2622 -97%
1940 2858 0.00124116 31 2827 -98%
1941 3125 0.001282617 38 3087 -98%
1942 3586 0.001312679 55 3531 -97%
1943 3638 0.001288901 26 3612 -99%
1944 3745 0.001392152 49 3696 -97%
1945 3482 0.001312521 34 3448 -98%
1946 4178 0.001307543 34 4144 -98%
1947 4649 0.001290557 55 4594 -98%
1948 4248 0.001230406 28 4220 -99%
1949 3912 0.001122597 26 3886 -99%
1950 3460 0.000987624 26 3434 -98%
1951 3610 0.000979983 28 3582 -98%
1952 3542 0.000932595 30 3512 -98%
1953 3498 0.000907712 29 3469 -98%
1954 3435 0.000862912 28 3407 -98%
1955 3211 0.000799735 34 3177 -98%
1956 3140 0.000761575 31 3109 -98%
1957 3713 0.000883597 34 3679 -98%
1958 3887 0.000940273 55 3832 -97%
1959 3816 0.000917751 45 3771 -98%
1960 3729 0.000897729 45 3684 -98%
1961 3455 0.000834077 51 3404 -97%
1962 3452 0.000855435 36 3416 -98%
1963 3548 0.000896367 49 3499 -97%
1964 3252 0.000836505 47 3205 -97%
1965 2780 0.000766802 62 2718 -96%
1966 2509 0.000721878 42 2467 -97%
1967 2413 0.000710773 58 2355 -95%
1968 2417 0.000715425 48 2369 -96%
1969 2311 0.000664974 62 2249 -95%
1970 2280 0.000632189 60 2220 -95%
1971 2043 0.000595218 49 1994 -95%
1972 1820 0.000579066 47 1773 -95%
1973 1772 0.00058736 41 1731 -95%
1974 1610 0.000529605 31 1579 -96%
1975 1587 0.000525602 33 1554 -96%
1976 1414 0.000466005 21 1393 -97%
1977 1358 0.000427515 26 1332 -96%
1978 1346 0.000424088 25 1321 -96%
1979 1304 0.000391945 25 1279 -96%
1980 1279 0.000371316 20 1259 -97%
1981 1225 0.00035411 12 1213 -98%
1982 1188 0.000338658 17 1171 -97%
1983 1027 0.000296535 20 1007 -96%
1984 985 0.000282336 10 975 -98%
1985 998 0.000279622 17 981 -97%
1986 981 0.000275788 16 965 -97%
1987 996 0.000276236 9 987 -98%
1988 958 0.000259266 12 946 -97%
1989 964 0.000250751 6 958 -99%
1990 989 0.000250223 8 981 -98%
1991 910 0.000233617 7 903 -98%
1992 891 0.000231954 7 884 -98%
1993 830 0.000220143 10 820 -98%
1994 837 0.000225142 6 831 -99%
1995 861 0.000235107 9 852 -98%
1996 871 0.000238814 9 862 -98%
1997 1003 0.000276632 8 995 -98%
1998 951 0.00025855 951 -100%
1999 967 0.000261785 8 959 -98%
2000 967 0.000255827 8 959 -98%
2001 848 0.000226533 6 842 -99%
2002 809 0.000216409 8 801 -98%
2003 679 0.000178575 9 670 -97%
2004 695 0.000181893 9 686 -97%
2005 632 0.000164376 6 626 -98%
2006 586 0.000148122 586 -100%
2007 543 0.000135829 543 -100%
2008 532 0.000135346 7 525 -97%
2009 470 0.000123031 470 -100%
2010 420 0.000113644 420 -100%
2011 368 0.000100607 368 -100%
2012 388 0.000106087 388 -100%
2013 368 0.000100942 368 -100%
2014 333 0.000089845 333 -100%
2015 356 0.000096193 356 -100%
2016 321 0.000087497 321 -100%
2017 345 0.000096471 345 -100%
2018 331 0.000094144 331 -100%
2019 368 0.000106023 7 361 -96%
2020 332 0.000099384 6 326 -96%
2021 363 0.000107144 12 351 -93%
2022 373 0.000110253 16 357 -91%
2023 407 0.000122916 20 387 -90%
2024 384 0.000115367 26 358 -86%

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