Tôm

given name · Latin script

Meaning: shrimp, prawn (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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Tôm is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 118,350 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.

  • NONorway1 in 379(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 974
  • SESweden1 in 1K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

118,350 people, 2020

Record sources
185 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 379 (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tom in US United States, NO Norway, SE Sweden.

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)

shrimp, prawn

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Tôm 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.

Where Tôm is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—118,3501 in 2.8K118KTom185
NO Norway#34814,4131 in 37939KTom68
SE Sweden—9,7761 in 1K9.8KTom35
DK Denmark—6,0281 in 9746K—1
FI Finland—4,2071 in 1.3K5.6K—16

118,350 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Tôm is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name66 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Tom, Toem, 톰, Tóm, 'Tom

  • Polish given name58 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Czechia, Poland, Russia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Tom, Том, Томь, Thome, Töm

  • French given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Tom, Tom', Tõm, T'Om, Töm

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tom

14 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Tôm is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In jae, louse

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Tôm under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Tôm mean, and where does it come from?
shrimp, prawn Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Tôm a male or female name?
Tôm is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
Which countries have the most people named Tôm?
In the United States, the national register counted about 118 thousand people named Tôm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tom. After it come Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Tôm most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tôm is densest in Norway — about 1 in 379 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Tôm?
In the United States, the national register counted 118,350 people named Tôm in 2020, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
How common is Tôm compared with other names?
In Norway, Tôm is the 348th most common given name of 25,788 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, “Tôm” — ranked 479th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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