Tom

girls:

614 births since 1883

#5102 (11th percentile)

boys:

139.6k births since 1880

#240 (95th percentile)

overall:

140.2k births since 1880

#532 (93rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tom".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
614
Peak Births
20
Peak Year
1925
First Recorded
1883
Peak Percentile
2.4%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#225
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
139,635
Peak Births
5,065
Peak Year
1959
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
87.8%
Current Percentile
4.8%
Peak Rank
#39
Current Rank
#867
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Tom

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Tom. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Tom is pronounced as tahm.

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100.0%
tahm (1 syllable)
Verified
100.0% confidence
T AA1 M

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Tom. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Tom, please vote using the thumbs up button.

tihm (1 syllable)
1 name 83.5k births
T IH0 M

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tam (1 syllable)
2 names 2.1k births
T AE1 M

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

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) 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.