Thom
The boy's name Thom has been in the national records since 1917, with 844 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2021. About 600 Thoms are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 61.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Thom
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 844
- Estimated living today
- 600
- Median age today
- 61
- Peak year
- 1961
- Best rank
- 1,406th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1917
How old the living Thoms are
born that year still alive today
Of the 844 babies given the name since 1917, about 600 are alive — 71 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1964 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Thoms
- Thom Yorke (born 1968)English musician and singer for Radiohead
- Thom Mayne (born 1944)American architect
- Thom Tillis (born 1960)United States Senator from North Carolina since 2015
- Thom Barry (born 1950)American actor
- Thom Haye (born 1995)Indonesian footballer
- Thom Mathews (born 1958)American actor
- Thom Gunn (1929–2004)English poet
- Thom Hartmann (born 1951)American political commentator
People named Thom with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Thom is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Thom is most concentrated in California (5.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1961
The most popular boys’ names the year Thom peaked:
Thom elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Thom | 455 | 1,082nd |
| England and Wales boys | Thom | 190 | 1,430th |
| Scotland boys | Thom | 30 | 459th |
| Belgium boys | Thom | 11 | 1,236th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Thom | 10 | 334th |
| Ireland boys | Thom | 4 | 616th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Thom among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Thom | 3,925 | 4,351 |
| Finland boys | Thom | — | 6 |
| Finland girls | Thom | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Thom against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.