girls:
27 births since 1928
#5689 (0th percentile)
boys:
29.9k births since 1880
#669 (85th percentile)
overall:
30k births since 1880
#1468 (81st percentile)
The name Tomas is the #1,468 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 29,972 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 81.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #669 (85.4% percentile) for all time with 29,945 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,689 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 27 births since 1928.
Tomas has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1928 for girls).
The name Tomas has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Tomas reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 48.9% percentile (ranked #448) with 244 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 256 births per million (ranked 48.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Tomas ranks #577 for boys (36.7% percentile) with 199 births per million, which is 78.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tomas reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #605) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tomas".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Tomas. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.5% confident that Tomas is pronounced as TOH-muhs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is toh-MAHS, at 18.9% confidence, with 2 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 OW1 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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