Tommy

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled טומי in IL Israel and Tomi in IN India.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Tommy is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name156K records spelled Tommy14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, France, Brazil, Mexico

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Tõmmý, Tõmmÿ, Tòmmy, Tómmy, Tômmy

• Indonesian given name29K records spelled Tommy5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Malaysia, Philippines

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Tömmÿ, Tömmý, Tömmy

• Finnish given name17K records spelled Tommy5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, Sweden, United States, Hungary

  Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

  Also written Tömmy, TómMý

• Polish given name12K records spelled Tommy50 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Croatia

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

  Also written Tomi, Томи, Томми, Tommie, Tommi

• a separate given name11K records spelled Tommy4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Norway, United Kingdom, China

  Also written Ṱ̸͘o̴̙̾ṁ̵̧ṁ̵̧y̶̡̎, Tômmy, Tômmỳ

• Hindi given name8.8K records spelled Tommy6 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

  Also written Tommÿ, Tómmy

• Greek given name4.8K records spelled Tommy7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece, United States, Finland, United Kingdom

  Also written Tommie, Tomi, Tommi, Τόμί, Τόμμυ

70 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●

Tommy is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In French, Thomas Atkins pourrait être le nom donné depuis 1815 dans la formule d’enrôlement des troupes anglaises. Tommy est l’abréviation du prénom Thomas. Le pluriel est tommies. Il désigne, aujourd’hui encore, le soldat britannique. Voir Sammy .

  as a name·2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)

• In Swedish, Tommy (m.fl. former) är en engelsk smekform till → Thomas. Namnet blev, liksom andra engelska mansnamn på -y, särskilt populärt årtiondena efter andra världskriget. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 21 december.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In French, Hypocoristique anglais de Thomas, « jumeau »; forme affective du prénom.

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

• In English, A twin form of Thomas

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

• In German, männl. Vom., englische Koseform von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Tommy Noonanb. 1921USAmerican actor, screenwriter and producer (1921-1968)
• Tommy Chongb. 1938CACanadian actor and comedian
• Tommy Lee Jonesb. 1946USAmerican actor and film director (born 1946)
• Tommy Mottolab. 1948USAmerican music executive
• Tommy Aldridgeb. 1950USAmerican drummer
• Tommy Tubervilleb. 1954USAmerican football coach and politician (born 1954)
• Tommy Flanaganb. 1965GBBritish actor (1965-)
• Tommy Morrisonb. 1969USboxer (1969-2013)
• Tommy Robredob. 1982ESSpanish tennis player (born 1982)
• Tommy Bastowb. 1991GBactor and musician

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,149 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tommy?

We estimate roughly 184 thousand people bear Tommy (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Tommy have the most bearers?

We estimate about 101 thousand people bear Tommy in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled tommy.

Where is Tommy most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tommy is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 254 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Tommy compared with other names?

In the United States, Tommy is the 417th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Tommy a male or female name?

Tommy is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Tommy mean?

Recorded meaning: A diminutive of the male given name Thomas.