Toma

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Toma is a surname, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 95th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Bangla, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A semi-hard Italian cheese from Piedmont.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 29◐
  • PLPoland1 in 72
  • SKSlovakia1 in 103

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈3.0M ●

across 12 countries

#272 ●

of 16M given names

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
382 ●

2.7M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 29 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

TomasLatin · Spanish●3M records
ᲗომაGeorgian · Georgian●14K records
ТомасCyrillic · Russian●7.6K records
ΘωμάςGreek · Greek●316 records
โทมสซThai · Thai●1 records
തോമസMalayalam · Malayalam●0 records
தாமஸTamil · Tamil●0 records
토마시Hangul · Korean●0 records

7 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tomas in AR Argentina, CZ Czechia, ES Spain and 14 more, Tomasz in PL Poland, NO Norway, GB United Kingdom and 3 more, Toms in US United States and Thomas in GR Greece.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

A semi-hard Italian cheese from Piedmont

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Toma is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#951,786,066736K rec.—3.8KTomas166
US United States#7221,505,122△536K rec.1 in 2211.5MToms382
PL Poland#12533,217△167K rec.1 in 72535KTomasz259
CZ Czechia#12363,852△51K rec.1 in 29364KTomas207
MX Mexico#164323,762304K rec.—1.1KTomas199
FR France—281,755△80 rec.1 in 241282K—5
VE Venezuela#129192,19766K rec.——Tomas81
PE Peru#207156,690146K rec.——Tomas72
CL Chile#131143,21613K rec.—1.6KTomas141
SE Sweden#28161,957△5.9K rec.1 in 16562KTomas108
ES Spain#11159,774132K rec.1 in 83762KTomas185
GB United Kingdom#47052,25251K rec.—5Tomasz151

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English66K37%
  • Bangla39K22%
  • Spanish15K8%
  • Romanian9.9K6%
  • French4.9K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English65,54637%
Bangla39,02122%
Spanish14,8518%
Romanian9,9246%
French4,8633%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Toma is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bangla surname40K records spelled Toma9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written তমা, Tomaa, তুমা, Tomá, Tömã

  • Spanish surname34K records spelled Toma29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, Peru, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Tomá, Tomã, Tôma, Tōmä, Tõma

  • Romanian surname15K records spelled Toma2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Italy, United Kingdom

  • Russian given name4.4K records spelled Toma19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian

    Also written Тома, Thoma, Thomás, Thomàs, Thomáš

  • Polish surname3.9K records spelled Toma3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Romania, United Kingdom

    Also written Tomã, Tomà

  • Italian surname2.3K records spelled Toma5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Romania, Switzerland

    Also written Tomà, Tomã, Tôma, Tomá

53 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Toma is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, redução popular e coloquial de Tomasi, Tomaso.

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Italian, Variante di Tommasi

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • Significant.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • In Russian, "silent."

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In Irish, vocative plural of tom (“bush, shrub”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02550751001940196019802000202084 · 1974

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Toma in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1929–2025
Yearrecords
19295
194314
19449
194712
194813
19495
19507
19515
19525
19558
19567
19576
19586
19617
19645
19666
19675
19696
19709
19715
19729
197344
197484
197527
197618
197718
197823
197914
19806
19829
19845
19875
19885
19895
19917
19925
19939
19959
19969
19978
19986
19998
200014
20018
200211
20038
20046
200511
20068
20089
200911
201012
201117
20127
201311
201414
201516
201611
201715
201818
20197
202016
202118
202224
202319
202418
202526

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 67 years between 1929–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Alexandru Toma, b. 1875Emile Touma, b. 1919András Toma, b. 1925Svetlana Toma, b. 1947Salvatore Toma, b. 1951Víctor García Toma, b. 1954Sanda Toma, b. 1956Ruth Toma, b. 1956Masaaki Tōma, b. 1973Sergiu Toma, b. 1987

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 76 sources across 39 countries.

Official registers attesting Toma
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.6K#6,985
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020104.4K#7,558
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020003.2K#9,279
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20213.1K—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.6K#2,871
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.6K#2,871
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20211.4K#460
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.2K#7,904
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—917#1,073
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020797#11,364
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024581#2,203
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—544#2,766

Reference works 7

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 426 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Toma?
We estimate roughly 3.0 million people bear Toma (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Toma have the most bearers?
Toma is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled tomas.
Where is Toma most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Toma is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 29 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Toma compared with other names?
In Argentina, Toma is the 95th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
What does the name Toma mean?
Recorded meaning: A semi-hard Italian cheese from Piedmont
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Toma” — the 95th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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