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Tomoya

Boys' name

Wisdom, intellect or friend, companion

Tomoya has been given to 74 babies in the U.S. since 1989. 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 1998, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Tomoya, 2016

1 in 612,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tomoya: meaning, origin, and history

Wisdom, intellect or friend, companion

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tomoya means

Tomoya means “wisdom, intellect or friend, companion”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tomoya is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /to̞.mo̞.jä/ for Tomoya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 74 boys were recorded with the name Tomoya between 1989 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1998; its best national rank was #5,608 in 1992.

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.

How common is Tomoya?

Tomoya had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 612,000
6 of 3,669,531 births
Among boys only
1 in 316,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
423,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tomoya 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 2016 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 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tomoya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tomoyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tomoya was born before 2001 — so the typical Tomoya is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
41.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
74
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 41.9% of all recorded uses (31).

Is Tomoya 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 1998 (11)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
56.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,608
1992

Spellings of Tomoya

Tomoya is not the most common spelling — Tommy is, with 99.6% against Tomoya's 0.04%.

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.

Tomoya around the world

Where Tomoya 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.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2004
    #3,651
    in 2004
  • South Australia
    1994–1994
    #531
    in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tomoya 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
#5,608
1992
Peak year
1998
11 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
74
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tomoya

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

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Sibling names for Tomoya

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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