Tom

Tom is the 3,376th most common surname in the United States, shared by 10,364 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 28,800.

By the numbers

People: 10,364
Rank: 3,376th
How common: 1 in 28,800
Per 100,000: 3.5

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Tom described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 50.5%
White, not Hispanic 17.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 16.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 8.3%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Black, not Hispanic 2.6%

Notable people called Tom

Lauren Tom (born 1970)American actress
Nicholle Tom (born 1978)American actress
Heather Tom (born 1975)American actress
Logan Tom (born 1981)American volleyball player
Abongile Tom (born 1991)South African referee

People named Tom with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Tom

Also a first name

Tom has been given to 140,370 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1959. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.