# Tomislav (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tomislav/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 197 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 197 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 10 | 3,831 |
| 1980 | 12 | 3,597 |
| 1981 | 10 | 4,128 |
| 1983 | 5 | 7,252 |
| 1984 | 5 | 7,245 |
| 1985 | 8 | 5,111 |
| 1986 | 5 | 7,737 |
| 1988 | 9 | 5,177 |
| 1989 | 8 | 6,185 |
| 1992 | 9 | 6,092 |
| 1994 | 5 | 10,125 |
| 1996 | 7 | 7,895 |
| 1997 | 5 | 10,685 |
| 1998 | 7 | 8,386 |
| 2003 | 10 | 7,197 |

## People named Tomislav

- Tomislav Nikolić, 4th President of the Republic of Serbia
- Tomislav Erceg, Croatian association football player
- Tomislav Marić, Croatian association football player
- Tomislav Ivić, Croatian football player and manager (1933-2011)
- Tomislav Dujmović, Croatian footballer
- Tomislav Crnković, Croatian footballer (1929-2009)
- Tomislav Butina, Croatian footballer
- Tomislav Ivković, Croatian footballer
- Tomislav Sunić, Croatian-American writer, translator and professor
- Tomislav Tomašević, Croatian political scientist, environmentalist, politician and activist
- Tomislav Karamarko, Croatian politician
- Tomislav Ivančić, Croatian theologian

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.