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Tomislav

Boys' name

Glory

Tomislav has been given to 197 babies in the U.S. since 1962. 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 1980, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Tomislav, 2003

1 in 380,000

Tomislav over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tomislav: meaning, origin, and history

Glory

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tomislav means

Tomislav means “glory”, associated with slava.

Origin, language, and formation

Tomislav is used in Serbo-Croatian and Slovene.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Tomislav is pronounced /tômislaʋ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 197 boys were recorded with the name Tomislav between 1962 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1980; its best national rank was #3,198 in 1973.

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 Tomislav?

Tomislav had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2003
1 in 380,000
10 of 3,801,425 births
Among boys only
1 in 197,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2003
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
263,496 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tomislav 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 2003 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 263,496 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tomislav. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tomislavs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tomislav was born before 1980 — so the typical Tomislav is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
35.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
197
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 35.5% of all recorded uses (70).

Is Tomislav 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 1980 (12)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,198
1973

Tomislav around the world

Where Tomislav 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
    1965–2005
    #4,814
    in 2005
  • Canada
    1991–2016
    #2,748
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1955–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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.

Tomislav 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
#3,198
1973
Peak year
1980
12 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2003
All-time count
197
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tomislav

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

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Sibling names for Tomislav

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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