Tommaso

Spellings & scripts●

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●

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Tommaso is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Italian given name72K records spelled Tommaso7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, France, Spain

  Languages: Italian, French, Spanish

  Also written Tõmmãsö

• Croatian given name672 records spelled Tommaso14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, Croatia, Switzerland, United States

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

  Also written Tomažo, Томазо, Tomazo, Tòmmàsò

44 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●

Tommaso 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, dall’aramaico Ta'oma, ‘gemello’

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

• In Italian, Dall'ebraico tōmā, 'gemello'.

  as a name·Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

• In Italian, var. gráfica de Tomaso.

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• Gemello

  as a name·Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

• Italian form of THOMAS . Short form: Maso .

  as a word

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 56 years between 1967–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Thomas Aquinasb. 1225ITnot in their usual nameItalian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274)
• Thomas a Kempisb. 1380DEnot in their usual nameGerman canon regular
• Nicholas Vb. 1397ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1447 to 1455
• Masacciob. 1401ITnot in their usual nameItalian painter (1401-1428)
• Tommaso Campanellab. 1568ITItalian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet (1568-1639)
• Alessandro Manzonib. 1785ITnot in their usual nameItalian writer and poet (1785–1873)
• Victor Emmanuel II of Italyb. 1820ITnot in their usual nameKing of Sardinia (1849–1861) and King of Italy (1861–1878)
• Filippo Tommaso Marinettib. 1876ITItalian poet and editor, founder of the Futurist movement (1876-1944)
• Tommaso Buscettab. 1928ITSicilian Mafia boss to become government informant
• Tommaso Padoa-Schioppab. 1940ITItalian banker and economist (1940-2010)

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 288 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tommaso?

We estimate roughly 2.0 thousand people bear Tommaso (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Tommaso have the most bearers?

Tommaso is most frequently recorded in Italy, where it is most often spelled tommaso.

How common is Tommaso compared with other names?

In Italy, Tommaso is the 64th most common given name of 102,519 given names recorded there.

Is Tommaso a male or female name?

Tommaso is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Tommaso mean?

Recorded meaning: Thomas (biblical character)