Baby name
CLASSIC
🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇷 Thomas
/TAH · mus/
Meaning
“Twin”
Aramaic 'thomas' means 'twin'; borne by Saint Thomas the Apostle (Doubting Thomas), carrying both humility and skepticism.
Nicknames
tom · tommy · thom
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Thomas has remained a steady, working-class masculine standard across English-speaking and Germanic countries for two centuries.
The cultural moment.
United Kingdom, Germany, and United States maintain Thomas in consistent top-20-50 throughout 20th and 21st centuries; stable use. Currently ranks #19 in the UK, #39 in the US and #41 in the Netherlands. It also ranks among the hundred most common given names in the world.