Tommy

Where Tommy comes from

From Tom + -y.
— Wiktionary's entry for Tommy
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #909 among boys — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1944
    Peak, #70
    3,696 babies named Tommy — more than any year before or since.
  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.