Tommy is a diminutive of Thomas, that developed into a given name. Thomas is the Greek form of the Aramaic name Ta’oma meaning ‘twin’.
Tommy is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Tommy isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Tommy ranks 668. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Tommy. In the entire USA, approximately 173,897 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Tommy. That is 0.05 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Tommy is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Tommy for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Tommy is therefore one of only 442 boys’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Tommy is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed at #70 Tommy easily made it into the top 100 boys' names of our SmartGenius statistics for male first names and has never been more popular than back in 1944.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Tommy was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 370 babies were named Tommy in the USA in 2022, ranking it at #664 on the list of the most popular boys' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 1880, when it was only ranked #793 of all male names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 5 boys were named Tommy.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names. That’s because 6.3% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Tommy is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 6.3% of all boys' names that begin with the letter T, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Thomas is the boys’ name starting with T, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Tommy and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Tommy, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Tommy sounds like this:
