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Tomica

Girls' name

Diminutive of Tomislav

Tomica has been given to 574 babies in the U.S. since 1969. 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 1977, with 60 recorded.

Babies named Tomica, 1993

1 in 471,000

Tomica over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tomica: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Tomislav

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tomica means

Tomica is a diminutive of Tomislav.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tomica is used in Croatian and Serbian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Tomica → Tomislav. The family’s meaning is “glory”, recorded in Serbo-Croatian with the source elements slava.

Origin, language, and formation

Tomica is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tomislav.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Tomica is pronounced /tômit͡sa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 574 girls were recorded with the name Tomica between 1969 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 60 in 1977; its best national rank was #1,710 in 1975.

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 Tomica?

Tomica had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993
1 in 471,000
8 of 3,768,729 births
Among girls only
1 in 226,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1993
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
326,537 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tomica sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1993 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 326,537 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tomica. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tomicas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tomica was born before 1977 — so the typical Tomica is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
70.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
574
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 70.7% of all recorded uses (406).

Is Tomica 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (60)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,710
1975

Spellings of Tomica

Tomica is not the most common spelling — Monica is, with 71.5% against Tomica's 0.16%.

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.

Where Tomica is used

Across 1910–2025, Tomica was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 482,183 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4North Carolina1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6South Carolina1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 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. Tomica has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tomica around the world

Where Tomica 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.

  • South Australia
    1969–1969
    #510
    in 1969

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tomica by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,710
1975
Peak year
1977
60 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
574
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tomica

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

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Sibling names for Tomica

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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