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Tomoe

Girls' name

From Japanese ともえ; literal meaning unconfirmed

Tomoe has been given to 57 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1920, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Tomoe, 1934

1 in 346,000

Tomoe over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tomoe: meaning, origin, and history

From Japanese ともえ; literal meaning unconfirmed

Japanese

What Tomoe means

Tomoe is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Tomoe is used in English. Its origins include Japanese.

Tomoe comes through Japanese ともえ.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 57 girls were recorded with the name Tomoe between 1917 and 1934. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1920; its best national rank was #3,319 in 1920.

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 Tomoe?

Tomoe had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1934, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1934
1 in 346,000
6 of 2,076,780 births
Among girls only
1 in 174,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1934
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
239,920 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tomoe 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 1934 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 239,920 children born in 1934 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tomoe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tomoes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tomoe was born before 1923 — so the typical Tomoe is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
68.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 68.4% of all recorded uses (39).

Is Tomoe 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 1920 (10)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
7.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,319
1920

Spellings of Tomoe

Tomoe is not the most common spelling — Tommie is, with 43.7% against Tomoe's 0.14%.

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 Tomoe is used

Across 1910–2025, Tomoe was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 9,426 across all states with data.

1111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 9,091

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. Tomoe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tomoe around the world

Where Tomoe 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
    2021–2021
    #7,263
    in 2021

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Tomoe 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
#3,319
1920
Peak year
1920
10 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1934
All-time count
57
Count in 2025
Under 5

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

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Sibling names for Tomoe

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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