Tom
45
Babies in 2024
-80%
10-year change
1999
Peak · 638
-18%
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 Tom
Tom peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (638 babies in 1999) and has remained in active use — 45 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Tom reached its peak in 1999, when 638 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #85 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 45 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 9,822 boys have been officially registered with the name Tom in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,202 boys were registered with the name, starting from 230 in 2014 and ending at 45 in 2024.