Tommy

Where Tommy comes from

From Tom + -y.
— Wiktionary's entry for Tommy
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Tommy through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys, with 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1944
    Peak, #70
    3,696 babies named Tommy, its best rank.
  3. 1946
    Tommy Lee Jones born
    American actor and film director
  4. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #146.
  5. 1982
    Tommy Robredo born
    Spanish tennis player
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Thomas.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Thomasina.
Namesakes
  • Tommy Lee Jones · American actor and film director, born 1946
  • Tommy Robredo · Spanish tennis player, born 1982
  • Tommy Emmanuel · Australian guitarist, born 1955
  • Tommy Thayer · American guitarist, born 1960
  • Tommy Bolin · American guitarist, 1951–1976

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.