Tom
Hebrew at root, carrying the sense "twin". It stays rare in Poland: barely a handful of boys get it each year, so most people here will never meet one.
Tom Pronunciation
Tom is pronounced TOM (/tɔm/).
What Tom means
Where Tom comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tom is the short form of Thomas, and both begin with one Hebrew word. That word is te'om, and it means twin. Early Greek writers rendered the same name as Didymos, itself the Greek for twin, so the meaning crossed languages before English took the name in and wore Thomas down to a single blunt syllable.
The best known bearer is the apostle remembered as Doubting Thomas, who asked to touch the wounds before he would believe. His name kept its sense of twin while his story handed English a byword for the honest skeptic.
On a Polish class register you will rarely find Tom as the official entry. Most boys there are Tomasz. Tom is what the playground and the family use, the name friends reach for when Tomasz feels too long. Under all of it sits the old meaning that never changed: twin, bliźniak.
How many people are named Tom
1 in 29042 men in Poland is named Tom. 764 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1074 among male names.
Tom's popularity over time
3 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1375 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #1074 name among living men, even as it slips to #1375 among newborns.
Where Tom is most popular
Tom is most popular in Greater Poland, 502% above the national average (3 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+144%).
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Greater Poland3 boys born+502%
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Masovian2 boys born+144%
Tom as a middle name
Tom is a first name for 764 men in Poland and a middle name for another 113, an 87/13 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 661st, between Julius (113) and Bastian (112).
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#659 Darek113
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#660 Julius113
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#661 Tom113
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#662 Bastian112
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#663 Carl112