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Thompson

Pronounced /ˈtɒmp.sən/

Rank in 2024
#2,915
Born in 2024
43
Peak year
2018 · #1939
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 43 boys were named Thompson, about 1 in every 39,891.
  • It peaked in 2018 with 76 babies, ranked #1939.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1882.
  • 2,666 boys have been named Thompson since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Thompson per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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Greatest: 361 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Silent: 316 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Boomers: 357 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 196 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 302 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 473 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 609 babies, 0.03 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Variant of Thomson, from Tom +‎ -son, originally meaning "son of Thomas". In some instances of people so named, a calque of Scottish Gaelic MacTamhais (“McTavish”); also an anglicisation of the Gaelic name MacTamhais, meaning "son of Thomas".

  • (countable) A British surname transferred from the given name.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈtɒmp.sən/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Thompson, CC BY-SA 4.0.