Tommie
Feminine · “twin”
Tommie is given to both — 17,769 girls and 34,446 boys since 1880. See Tommie as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Tommie for a daughter is Thomasina shortened — and Thomas is Aramaic for twin, which makes it one of the few New Testament names that is a description rather than a name.
How old is the name Tommie?
Tommie was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Tommie alive today was born around 1939, making them about 86 years old. About 8,000 people named Tommie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tommie most popular?
Tommie peaked in 1937, reaching #333 nationally. Today it ranks #2326, 1,993 places below that high. See the whole 1937 chart.
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Where it comes from
From te'oma to Tommie
The story of Tommie
Thomas the apostle, remembered for demanding to see the wounds, gave his name to one of the most-used names in Christian Europe. Thomasina was its medieval feminine, and speech clipped it to Tommie. American families registered the clipping for daughters in the same movement that produced Billie, Jackie and Bobbie, and it peaked around 1930.
Meaning
twin
Through Thomas, from the Aramaic te'oma, 'twin'. The Gospel of John glosses it directly, calling the apostle Thomas 'the one called Didymus' — which is simply the Greek for twin. The name is therefore a nickname that displaced whatever the man was actually called.
How the name formed
- te'oma
- Thomas
- Thomasina
- Tommie
Related forms: Tommy · Thomasina · Tommasina
Pronouncing Tommie
TOM-ee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Said identically whichever sex carries it.
Nicknames for Tommie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 1942367 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #333reached in 1937
- Change vs 2022
- +81.4%78 in 2025, from 43
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Tommie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tommy in English — spelling variant
- Thomasina in English — related form
- Tommasina in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Ohio.
Tommies among us
people named Tommie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 20,606 born in 2025 was named Tommie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Eddie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tommie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Eddie climbed just as high around 1922, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Eddie's path sketches the road Tommie is walking now.
Tommie sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Tommie is headed
Tommie should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Tommie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tommie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The twin meaning is concrete and the Gospel glosses it explicitly.
- Thomasina is available as a full formal version with real medieval history.
- It belongs to a documented American practice of unisex short forms.
- It reads as masculine to most English speakers.
- As a diminutive on the certificate it carries an informal register into adult life.
- It is strongly period-coded to the early twentieth century.
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Feminine · #2326 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Tommies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 8,000 people named Tommie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tommie in 2025?
- Tommie ranks #2326 among US girl names in 2025, with 78 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tommie?
- About 1 in every 20,606 US girls born in 2025 was named Tommie — 78 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tommie with classmates?
- Tommie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Tommie
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