Töm
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Töm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From generic use of the proper name Tom.
- USUnited States1 in 2.8K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 379
- DKDenmark1 in 974
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- 1 in 379 (inferred from the name graph)
118,350 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
From generic use of the proper name Tom.
Sources 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Töm 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 118,350 | 1 in 2.8K | 118K | Tom | 72 |
| NO Norway | 14,413 | 1 in 379 | 39K | Tom | 15 |
| SE Sweden | 9,776 | 1 in 1K | 9.8K | Tom | 10 |
| DK Denmark | 6,028 | 1 in 974 | 6K | — | — |
| FI Finland | 4,207 | 1 in 1.3K | 5.6K | — | 7 |
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Töm is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, a rein (in the hands of the rider or horse driver)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, to stuff, fill, jam (into something: -ba/-be)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Töm mean, and where does it come from?
- From generic use of the proper name Tom. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Töm have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 118 thousand people named Töm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tom.
- Where is Töm most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Töm 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 Töm?
- In the United States, the national register counted 118,350 people named Töm in 2020, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%B6mThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Töm”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.