Tomie

Where Tomie comes from

Tomie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1886
    First appearance
    #845 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1902
    Peak, #687
    11 babies named Tomie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1903
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,130.
  4. 1912
    Tomie Ōhara born
    Japanese novelist and writer
  5. 1913
    Tomie Ohtake born
    Brazilian artist
  6. 1985
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Tomie Ohtake · Brazilian artist, 1913–2015
  • Tomie Ōhara · Japanese novelist and writer, 1912–2000
  • Tomie Edano · Japanese table tennis player, born 1955

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.