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Baby name
Tom
Boy
Origin of the name
Tom is a short form of Thomas, from the Aramaic Toma, “twin.”
Classic name
139,756births since 1880
1950sgeneration
No. 82rank at its peak, in 1959
Where babies named Tom are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Tom is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Tom is most common in Montana (2.7 times), Wyoming (2.5) and Iowa (2.3), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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