Toms

loc · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Toms is a name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 95th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: First recorded in 1537. Ultimately from Aramaic. Cognate to English Thomas.

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, Toma in BD Bangladesh 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●

First recorded in 1537. Ultimately from Aramaic. Cognate to English Thomas.

Sources 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Toms 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●

  • English990K73%
  • Finnish1.1K1%
  • Portuguese401%
  • Spanish291%
  • Italian151%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English989,88173%
Finnish1,0711%
Portuguese401%
Spanish291%
Italian151%

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◐

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

  • a separate name7.8K records spelled Toms6 spellings in the group

    Also written Tôm'S, Tom'S

  • Portuguese given name3.6K records spelled Toms7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Tôm'S, Tom'S

55 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●

Toms 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 Latvian, Thomas (Biblical figure)

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

  • In Latvian, Kristietības mitoloģiskajā tradīcijā un leģendās - viens no 12 apustuļiem, kurš nebija kopā ar pārējiem mācekļiem, kad pie viņiem ieradās augšāmcēlies Jēzus Kristus, un sākotnēji atteicās tam ticēt

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Atsevišķa sacerējuma, grāmatas daļa, sējums

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Grieziens

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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●

01020304020002005201020152020

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Toms in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199912
200012
200112
200212
200312
200411
200511
200611
200710
200811
200912
201015
201116
201219
201323
201425
201523
201629
201728
201826
201931
202036

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Frederick Toms, b. 1885Edward Toms, b. 1899Carl Toms, b. 1927Ivan Toms, b. 1952David Toms, b. 1967Frazer Toms, b. 1979Toms Hartmanis, b. 1987Toms Skujiņš, b. 1991Tobu, b. 1992Toms Kantans, b. 1994

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 39 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Toms
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—5.3K#96
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—5.3K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020105K#6,764
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.8K#6,776
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020004.8K#6,542
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—262#3,912
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—257#6,513
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—256#4,897
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—194#1,848
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—139#4,285
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—84#9,619
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—67#36,807

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 79 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Toms?
We estimate roughly 3.0 million people bear Toms (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Toms have the most bearers?
Toms is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled tomas.
Where is Toms most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Toms is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 29 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Toms compared with other names?
In Argentina, Toms is the 95th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
What does the name Toms mean?
Recorded meaning: First recorded in 1537. Ultimately from Aramaic. Cognate to English Thomas.
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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, “Toms” — the 95th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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