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Thoma

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Form of Thomas

Thoma has been given to 98 babies in the U.S. since 1951. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1970, with 9 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 80% boys, 20% girls all-time.

Babies named Thoma, 1990

1 in 790,000

Thoma over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Thoma over time

In 1990, Thoma went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19441990

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Thoma: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Thomas

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Thoma means

Thoma is a form of Thomas.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Thoma is used in Albanian and Old Church Slavic.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Thoma → Thomas. The family’s meaning is “twin”, recorded in English with the source elements תאמא.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Thomas.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 78 boys were recorded with the name Thoma between 1951 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1970; its best national rank was #3,494 in 1970.

In the United States, 20 girls were recorded with the name Thoma between 1944 and 1961. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1944; its best national rank was #5,181 in 1944.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Thoma?

Thoma had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1990, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1990
1 in 790,000
5 of 3,949,959 births
Among boys only
1 in 411,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1990
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
547,582 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Thoma sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1990 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 547,582 children born in 1990 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Thoma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Thomas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Thoma was born before 1968 — so the typical Thoma is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
29.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
78
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 29.5% of all recorded uses (23).

Is Thoma rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1970 (9)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,494
1970

Spellings of Thoma

Thoma is not the most common spelling — Thomas is, with 92.9% against Thoma's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Thoma around the world

Where Thoma ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1988–2025
    #6,015
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2020
    #2,753
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1966–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Thoma by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,494
1970
Peak year
1970
9 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
1990
All-time count
78
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,181
1944
Peak year
1944
5 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
1961
All-time count
20
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Thoma

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ThorynThornRyomaThorsenThorenThomsThomosThorneSomaThongThomsonThosThoamsUzomaTacomaThorsonThortonThoThorfinnThorstenThommyThoranThoreauThomes

Sibling names for Thoma

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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