Thomas
Thomas is ranked 39th among boys in 2024 (6,576 births). Its best rank was 8th, in 1880, 1882, 1884 and 17 more years.
- Rank in 2024
- #39up 2 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6,5760.38% of boys
- Peak year
- 195248,650 births
- Best rank
- #8first in 1880
- Since 1880
- 2,360,128people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,351,624 boys have been named Thomas in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1952, with 48,650 births — 2.5% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 54 → 39).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1956, and the 1950s alone account for 19%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 145 of them in the top 100 and 58 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 8,504 girls have also been given it, 0.36% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Thomas | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 23,750 | |
| 1890s | 21,115 | |
| 1900s | 21,783 | |
| 1910s | 91,619 | |
| 1920s | 161,109 | |
| 1930s | 183,873 | |
| 1940s | 350,771 | |
| 1950s | 454,385 | |
| 1960s | 327,059 | |
| 1970s | 186,766 | |
| 1980s | 177,817 | |
| 1990s | 146,634 | |
| 2000s | 102,103 | |
| 2010s | 70,010 | |
| 2020s | 32,830 |
In 1952, its biggest year
Thomas was the 8th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1952 were James, Robert, John, Michael and David. See all of 1952.
Names that rose and fell with Thomas
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Allenpeak 1951
- Fredrickpeak 1953
- Jamespeak 1947
- Peterpeak 1957
- Martinpeak 1963
- Stewartpeak 1956
- Nealpeak 1959
- Bartonpeak 1960
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.