Tomasita
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tomasita has been given to 935 babies in the U.S. since 1891. 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 1926, with 25 recorded.
Babies named Tomasita, 1991
1 in 779,000
Tomasita over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Tomasita?
Tomasita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1991
- 1 in 779,000
- 5 of 3,892,928 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 375,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1991
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 539,676 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tomasita sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1991 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 539,676 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tomasita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tomasitas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tomasita was born before 1946 — so the typical Tomasita is around 79 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 17.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 19.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 396
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 17.8% of all recorded uses (166).
Is Tomasita 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1926 (25)
- Years since peak
- 99
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.2% average annual change
Spellings of Tomasita
Tomasita is not the most common spelling — Thomasina is, with 47.7% against Tomasita's 11.8%.
Where Tomasita is used
Across 1910–2025, Tomasita was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 93,758 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Mexico1 in 11,111
- 2Texas1 in 33,333
- 3California1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tomasita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Tomasita by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Tomasita
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tomasita
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.