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Tommy

Tommy means "Twin" and comes from Aramaic, giving it real etymological depth as a boy's name. It has not kept pace since its 1940s peak. In the current registry, it is a name most people have come across. Since 1900, roughly 178,345 babies in the U.S. have been given this name.

AramaicDiminutive of Thomas
AramaicTwin
Births by decade
1900s
438
1910s
1,983
1920s
7,246
1930s
20,226
1940s
37,413
1950s
35,291
1960s
29,859
1970s
16,536
1980s
10,598
1990s
9,108
2000s
6,757
2010s
2,890
Peaked in the 1940s · 178,345 total U.S. births since 1900