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Baby name
Thomas
Boy
Origin of the name
Thomas comes from the Aramaic Toma, “twin,” through Greek and Latin. In the Gospels, he is the apostle who refused to believe in the resurrection of Jesus without seeing it, hence the phrase “doubting Thomas.”
Classic name
2,358,576births since 1880
1950sgeneration
No. 8rank at its peak, in 1952
Where babies named Thomas are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Thomas is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Thomas is most common in Rhode Island (1.5 times), Connecticut (1.5) and New Jersey (1.5), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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- Tomas 30,703
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