Tuomas
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tuomas is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Finland it is the 72nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Thomas (biblical figure).
- SESweden1 in 165◐
- FIFinland1 in 199
- USUnited States1 in 221
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.0M ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 191 ●
- 1 in 140 ◐
across 15 countries
recorded for this name
15K records
Official registry-verified
Denmark
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Thomas in US United States, IN India, NO Norway and 9 more.
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●
Thomas (biblical figure)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,505,122△ | 6.6K rec. | 1 in 221 | 1.5M | Thomas | 191 |
| FR France | — | 281,755 | 0 rec. | 1 in 241 | 282K | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | #421 | 61,957△ | 584 rec. | 1 in 165 | 62K | Thomas | 65 |
| DK Denmark | — | 41,800 | — | 1 in 140 | 42K | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 36,052△ | 10 rec. | 1 in 5.9K | 36K | Tuomas | 11 |
| FI Finland | #72 | 27,936△ | 5.2K rec. | 1 in 199 | 34K | Tuomas | 113 |
| NO Norway | — | 24,574△ | 207 rec. | 1 in 222 | 89K | Thomas | 27 |
| PL Poland | — | 4,652 | — | 1 in 8.2K | 4.7K | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | — | 2,959 | — | 1 in 5.7K | 3K | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 1,236 | — | 1 in 8.7K | 1.2K | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,013 | 587 rec. | — | — | Thomas | 55 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 558 | 56 rec. | — | 1.8K | Thomas | 24 |
Roughly 1.5M people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 221). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Finnish137K94%
- English2.4K2%
- Chinese1.5K1%
- Portuguese7641%
- German6191%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 137,099 | 94% |
| English | 2,439 | 2% |
| Chinese | 1,523 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 764 | 1% |
| German | 619 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 108 |
| 2000 | 109 |
| 2001 | 111 |
| 2002 | 115 |
| 2003 | 109 |
| 2004 | 109 |
| 2005 | 112 |
| 2006 | 109 |
| 2007 | 102 |
| 2008 | 97 |
| 2009 | 98 |
| 2010 | 102 |
| 2011 | 100 |
| 2012 | 101 |
| 2013 | 102 |
| 2014 | 101 |
| 2015 | 106 |
| 2016 | 108 |
| 2017 | 106 |
| 2018 | 113 |
| 2019 | 110 |
| 2020 | 105 |
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●
- Tuomas Anhavab. 1927FIFinnish poet, translator and critic (1927–2001)
- Markku Arob. 1950FInot in their usual nameFinnish singer
- Tuomas Kantelinenb. 1969FIFinnish composer
- Sami Hyypiäb. 1973FInot in their usual nameFinnish footballer and manager (born 1973)
- Tuomas Grönmanb. 1974FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Tuomas Kyröb. 1974FIFinnish writer and cartoonist
- Tuomas Ketolab. 1975FIFinnish tennis player
- Tuomas Holopainenb. 1976FIFinnish songwriter, producer and keyboardist
- Tuomas Sammelvuob. 1976FIFinnish volleyball player and coach
- Tuomas Iisalob. 1982FIFinnish basketball player and coach
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 34K | #117 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 28K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 266 | #4,262 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 115 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 113 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 112 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 111 | #16,805 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 111 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 110 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 109 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 109 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 109 | — |
Reference works 3
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia given-name 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 · 44 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tuomas?
- We estimate roughly 2.0 million people bear Tuomas (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
- In which country does Tuomas have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.5 million people bear Tuomas in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled thomas.
- Where is Tuomas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tuomas is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 140 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Tuomas compared with other names?
- In Finland, Tuomas is the 72nd most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
- Is Tuomas a male or female name?
- Tuomas 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 Tuomas mean?
- Recorded meaning: Thomas (biblical figure)
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About this data
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, “Tuomas” — the 72nd most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.