girls:
8.5k births since 1880
#1767 (69th percentile)
boys:
2.3M births since 1880
#10 (100th percentile)
overall:
2.4M births since 1880
#11 (100th percentile)
The name Thomas is the #11 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,353,439 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 99.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #10 (99.8% percentile) for all time with 2,344,940 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #1,767 (69.1% percentile) for all time with 8,499 births since 1880.
Thomas has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Thomas has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Thomas reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 98.9% percentile (ranked #8) with 21,937 births per million. The name was most common in 1951, with 25,253 births per million (ranked 98.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Thomas ranks #40 for boys (95.7% percentile) with 3,603 births per million, which is 14.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Thomas reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 22.1% percentile (ranked #472) with 120 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 120 births per million (ranked 22.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Thomas ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 3.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Thomas".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Thomas. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.2% confident that Thomas is pronounced as TAH-muhs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TAH-muh-sihz, at 12.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like T AA1 M AH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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