Thomas
1.54k
Babies in 2024
-65%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 9.60k
-17%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Thomas
Thomas peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (9,603 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 1,543 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Thomas reached its peak in 1996, when 9,603 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #3 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 1,543 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 160,894 boys have been officially registered with the name Thomas in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 32,271 boys were registered with the name, starting from 4,405 in 2014 and ending at 1,543 in 2024.