Tom?

[pleasure-past.livejournal.com]

I need a name that is not Thomas or any variant of Thomas that "Tom" could still be used as a nickname for. Mythological names are preferred. The more usual, the better.

Comments

[landslideoflove.livejournal.com]

Thompson?

[etacanis.livejournal.com]

We call my father Tom sometimes, but our surname is Thompson so...that's probably not useful, considering it's a variation of son of Thomas. There's not really many names with Tom in, but there are a lot of variations of Thomas that don't look like Thomas?

[lalonde.livejournal.com]

Te'oma is the name that Thomas "evolved" from. It is Ancient Aramaic.

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

The Gaelic spelling of Thomas is Tomhas, but people might just think you can't spell.

Other than that, I can only think of Thompson, Thomson... Tomlin...

Maybe Thomar. It's Australian Aboriginal, means river.

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

Er, what's wrong with Thomas?

[pleasure-past.livejournal.com]

Absolutely nothing? It's just not what I need for this character.

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

Oh. I didn't know you were naming a character. I thought you wanted it for a kid and we've had a lot weird-name posts lately, so yeah...

[rorylareina.livejournal.com]

Antonio Carlos Jobim (bossa nova composer/musician) went by Tom.

[snoglobel.livejournal.com]

I think Thor could pull off Tom as a nickname.

[hibiscus-hedge.livejournal.com]

Babynames.com suggests:

Tom Tomai Tomas
Tomer Tomi Tomiko
Tommy Tomoe Tomoka
Tomoko Tomomi Tomoya

Also anything that's usually "dom" could be skewed over, like Tominic or something.

[unboundvoice.livejournal.com]

Thomasina / Thomasena (was my cats name and he was male lol)

[ladydreamfire.livejournal.com]

If it's for a character, name the character something completely different and just have them randomly nicknamed Tom for some childhood antic. If it's a girl it could be because she used to be a tomboy. If it's a boy, give him a first name he hated and have him decide to rename himself Tom.

I mean there are ways around using Tom without it being the official name. That's my suggestion, because I can't think of a name that fits those perimeters.

[purplefog.livejournal.com]

Welsh form of Thomas is Tomos. No good?

[silvermidnight.livejournal.com]

Atom
Rototom
Martom
Letomes

[sictransitsuzy.livejournal.com]

Tommen from a Song of Ice and Fire.