Tommie

Where Tommie comes from

The dictionaries list Tommie as a given name — a male given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #465 among boys — 15 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1909
    Peak, #193
    113 babies named Tommie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1944
    Tommie Smith born
    American track and field athlete
  4. 1994
    Tommie Hoban born
    association football player
  5. 2006
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,398.
  6. 2020
    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
  • A male given name.
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Tommie Smith · American track and field athlete, born 1944
  • Tommie Hoban · association football player, born 1994
  • Tommie Earl Jenkins · American actor, born 1965
  • Tommie Agee · American baseball player, 1942–2001
  • Tommie Aaron · American baseball player, 1939–1984

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.