Tommy
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tommy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Sweden it is the 87th most common given name. Recorded meaning: A diminutive of the male given name Thomas.
- SESweden1 in 254(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 604
- DKDenmark1 in 699
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tommy itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 552 (measured from records)
- 1 in 254 (inferred from the name graph)
≈640,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A diminutive of the male given name Thomas.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tommy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈640,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Tommy | 52 |
| US United States | #408 | 101,695 | 1 in 3.3K | 101K | Tommy | 552 |
| SE Sweden | #87 | 40,109 | 1 in 254 | 40K | Tommy | 144 |
| GB United Kingdom | #487 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 1.3K | Tommy | 249 |
| IT Italy | #707 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 3 | Tommy | 74 |
| FI Finland | #988 | 15,965as Tomi | 1 in 349 | 17K | Tommy | 55 |
| NO Norway | #94 | 9,056 | 1 in 604 | 33K | Tommy | 117 |
| DK Denmark | #90 | 8,399 | 1 in 699 | 8.4K | Tommy | 150 |
| HK Hong Kong | #110 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 988 | — | Tommy | 73 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tommy is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Thomas Atkins pourrait être le nom donné depuis 1815 dans la formule d’enrôlement des troupes anglaises. Tommy est l’abréviation du prénom Thomas. Le pluriel est tommies. Il désigne, aujourd’hui encore, le soldat britannique. Voir Sammy .
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
In Swedish, Tommy (m.fl. former) är en engelsk smekform till → Thomas. Namnet blev, liksom andra engelska mansnamn på -y, särskilt populärt årtiondena efter andra världskriget. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 21 december.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Hypocoristique anglais de Thomas, « jumeau »; forme affective du prénom.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In English, A twin form of Thomas
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In German, männl. Vom., englische Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tommy Noonanb. 1921USAmerican actor, screenwriter and producer (1921-1968)
- Tommy Chongb. 1938CACanadian actor and comedian
- Tommy Lee Jonesb. 1946USAmerican actor and film director (born 1946)
- Tommy Mottolab. 1948USAmerican music executive
- Tommy Aldridgeb. 1950USAmerican drummer
- Tommy Tubervilleb. 1954USAmerican football coach and politician (born 1954)
- Tommy Flanaganb. 1965GBBritish actor (1965-)
- Tommy Morrisonb. 1969USboxer (1969-2013)
- Tommy Robredob. 1982ESSpanish tennis player (born 1982)
- Tommy Bastowb. 1991GBactor and musician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 113 sources across 61 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 101K | #547 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 40K | #99 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 33K | #118 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 25K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 9.1K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8.4K | #85 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 2.8K | #447 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 1.9K | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024) | 2024 | 1.3K | #39 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 995 | #547 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 420 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 154 | #20 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Tommy a male or female name?
- Tommy is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Tommy mean, and where does it come from?
- A diminutive of the male given name Thomas. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Tommy?
- In the etymology graph, Tom, Tomas and Tam are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Thomas.
- In which country does Tommy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 638 thousand people named Tommy in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tommy.
- Where is Tommy most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tommy is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 254 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tommy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 101,695 people named Tommy in 2020, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Tommy compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Tommy is the 87th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tommy” — the 87th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.