Toma
Last seen for girls in 1998 at #12,426 · #4,050 for boys in 2025, 26 births
Given to boys 75.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1974 · 84 births
- Debut · boys
- 44 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 658since 1973
Toma over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #4,050 | 26 | |
| 2024 | — | #5,241 | 18 | |
| 2023 | — | #5,075 | 19 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,303 | 24 | |
| 2021 | — | #5,110 | 18 | |
| 2020 | — | #5,451 | 16 | |
| 2019 | — | #9,756 | 7 | |
| 2018 | — | #5,106 | 18 | |
| 2017 | — | #5,788 | 15 | |
| 2016 | — | #7,157 | 11 | |
| 2015 | — | #5,507 | 16 | |
| 2014 | — | #5,997 | 14 | |
| 2013 | — | #7,026 | 11 | |
| 2012 | — | #9,709 | 7 | |
| 2011 | — | #5,200 | 17 | |
| 2010 | — | #6,698 | 12 | |
| 2009 | — | #7,236 | 11 | |
| 2008 | — | #8,324 | 9 | |
| 2007 | — | — | ||
| 2006 | — | #8,732 | 8 | |
| 2005 | — | #6,634 | 11 | |
| 2004 | — | #9,948 | 6 | |
| 2003 | — | #7,831 | 8 | |
| 2002 | — | #6,088 | 11 | |
| 2001 | — | #7,536 | 8 | |
| 2000 | — | #5,040 | 14 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,139 | 8 | |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | — | #6,618 | 8 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,982 | 9 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,928 | 9 | |
| 1994 | — | — | ||
| 1993 | — | #5,771 | 9 | |
| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
| 1991 | — | #6,519 | 7 | |
| 1990 | — | — | ||
| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
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| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
| 1983 | — | — | ||
| 1982 | — | #4,234 | 9 | |
| 1981 | — | — | ||
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,018 | 14 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,068 | 23 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,458 | 18 | |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 | #2,417 | 18 |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 | #1,787 | 27 |
| 1974 | #3,212 | 21 | #882 | 84 |
| 1973 | #3,122 | 21 | #1,238 | 44 |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 | — | |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 | — | |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | — | |
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 | — | |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
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| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | — | |
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| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 | — | |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 | — | |
| 1956 | #4,837 | 7 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,376 | 8 | — | |
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| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | — | |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 | — | |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,828 | 13 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,061 | 12 | — | |
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| 1944 | #3,139 | 9 | — | |
| 1943 | #2,447 | 14 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Toma! It came in at #1,238, and was given to 44 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1981, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Toma is popular in 1973
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- North Carolina#450 · 1 in 5,629
- New York#1,046 · 1 in 22,867
Best ever in a state: #450 in North Carolina, 1973.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | #450 | 7 | 1 in 5,629 |
| New York | #1,046 | 5 | 1 in 22,867 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Toma
- 1,191 spots since 2024 (#5,241 → #4,050)
- 1,401 spots since 2020 (#5,451 → #4,050)
- 1,457 spots since 2015 (#5,507 → #4,050)
- Biggest jump: 356 spots in 1974 (#1,238 → #882)
- Biggest drop: 905 spots in 1975 (#882 → #1,787)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1974 at #882 (84 births)
- Births halved by 1975, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1974
- Highest: 1 in 18,718 boys born in 1974 were named Toma (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 65,695 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.7% of all boys named Toma (228) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1998, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 228 | #882 (1974) | #1,981 |
| 1980s | 35 | #4,234 (1982) | #6,367 |
| 1990s | 60 | #5,771 (1993) | #7,003 |
| 2000s | 86 | #5,040 (2000) | #7,485 |
| 2010s | 128 | #5,106 (2018) | #6,794 |
| 2020s | 121 | #4,050 (2025) | #4,872 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Toma in 1973
Top girls' names in 1973
Top boys' names in 1973
More about 1973
girls
1,458,209 girls got a published name in 1973; 1 in 69,439 of them was named Toma, which outranked 68.2% of the 9,810 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,015Velda22
- #3,015Willette22
- #3,015Zondra22
- #3,122Toma21
- #3,122Adriene21
- #3,122Angelo21
- #3,122Antonina21
- #3,233Abbe20
- #3,233Alayna20
- #3,233Alejandrina20
Tied with 110 names at #3,122; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,558,576 boys got a published name in 1973; 1 in 35,422 of them was named Toma, which outranked 78.9% of the 5,877 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,231Gil45
- #1,231Hershel45
- #1,231Noble45
- #1,238Toma44
- #1,238Alonso44
- #1,238Antwain44
- #1,238Benedict44
- #1,253Alexandro43
- #1,253Augustus43
- #1,253Benjamen43
Tied with 14 names at #1,238; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 669Jabbar#917 → #1,586
- ↓ 361Wes#993 → #1,354
- ↓ 326Paris#797 → #1,123
- ↓ 284Christophe#984 → #1,268
- ↓ 272Bennett#851 → #1,123
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.