girls:
2.8k births since 1916
#3293 (42nd percentile)
boys:
131 births since 1958
#4455 (3rd percentile)
overall:
2.9k births since 1916
#5027 (35th percentile)
The name Tomi is the #5,027 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,901 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 35.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 35.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,293 (42.4% percentile) for all time with 2,770 births since 1916. For boys, it ranks #4,455 (2.8% percentile) for all time with 131 births since 1958.
Tomi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (1916 for girls and 1958 for boys). Birth data for Tomi is available in 97 out of the 108 years between 1916 and 2023 (97 years for girls and 20 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Tomi has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 95.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Tomi reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 7.2% percentile (ranked #713) with 36 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 36 births per million (ranked 7.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Tomi ranks #928 for girls (2.0% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 37.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Tomi reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #798) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tomi".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Tomi is pronounced as TOH-mee, which has 2 syllables.
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