Tomie

Where Tomie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Tomie.

  • Vowel-ended
Tomie through the years
  1. 1886
    First appearance
    #845 among boys with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1902
    Peak, #687
    11 babies named Tomie, its best rank.
  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 on, more girls have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.