Thómas
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Thómas is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Panama it is the 6th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Vulgate Latin Thomas, from Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς (Thōmâs), from Aramaic ܬܐܘܡܐ or תאומא (“Thomas”), from ܬܐܡܐ or תאמא (“twin”). Recorded as a given name in Norway since the 13th century.
- DKDenmark1 in 140(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 165
- USUnited States1 in 221
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 431 (measured from records)
- 1 in 140 (inferred from the name graph)
1,506,606 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Thomas in US United States, BR Brazil, PA Panama.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Vulgate LatinThomas(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΘωμᾶςThōmâs(measured from records)
- Aramaicܬܐܘܡܐ(measured from records)
From Vulgate Latin Thomas, from Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς (Thōmâs), from Aramaic ܬܐܘܡܐ or תאומא (“Thomas”), from ܬܐܡܐ or תאמא (“twin”). Recorded as a given name in Norway since the 13th century.
Cited for this meaning 14
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Welsh Surnames
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Thómas counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #612 | 1,506,606 | 1 in 221 | 1.5M | Thomas | 431 |
| SE Sweden | — | 61,957 | 1 in 165 | 62K | — | 58 |
| DK Denmark | — | 41,800 | 1 in 140 | 42K | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | #560 | 36,052 | 1 in 5.9K | 36K | Thomas | 206 |
| NO Norway | — | 24,574 | 1 in 222 | 89K | — | 51 |
| FI Finland | — | 4,120 | 1 in 1.4K | 8.7K | — | 19 |
| PA Panama | #6 | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 294K | — | Thomas | 61 |
1,506,606 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Thómas mean, and where does it come from?
- From Vulgate Latin Thomas, from Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς (Thōmâs), from Aramaic ܬܐܘܡܐ or תאומא (“Thomas”), from ܬܐܡܐ or תאמא (“twin”). Recorded as a given name in Norway since the 13th century. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 12 other sources.
- Is Thómas a male or female name?
- Thómas 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Thómas?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 million people named Thómas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thomas. After it come Sweden, Denmark, Brazil and Norway; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Thómas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Thómas is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 140 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Thómas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,506,606 people named Thómas in 2020, about 1 in 221 residents.
- How common is Thómas compared with other names?
- In the United States, Thómas is the 612th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/th%C3%B3masThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Thómas” — the 612th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.