Toman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A division of 10,000 men in the Mongolian army
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/toʊmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Toman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 6.1K
- SISlovenia1 in 10K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
4,755 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
A division of 10,000 men in the Mongolian army.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Toman 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #117 | 4,755 | 1 in 2.3K | 4.8K | Toman | 94 |
| US United States | — | 2,857 | 1 in 116K | 2.9K | Toman | 69 |
| SK Slovakia | #226 | 885 | 1 in 6.1K | 885 | Toman | 45 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 100K | 461 | Toman | 17 |
| PL Poland | — | 581 | 1 in 66K | 304 | Toman | 35 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 207 | 1 in 10K | 207 | — | 2 |
| HR Croatia | — | 186 | 1 in 23K | 186 | — | — |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Toman | 5 |
4,755 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Toman 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 Indonesian, giant snakehead; giant mudfish (Channa micropeltes)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, third-person plural present subjunctive of tomar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, third-person plural present indicative of tomar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mrw, fulfill, effect; true, right, correct
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In bbc, decent, chaste, reserved
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lovro Tomanb. 1827SIAustrian member of Austrian empire council and lawyer (1827-1870)
- Wilf Tomanb. 1874GBEnglish footballer (1874-1917)
- Karel Tomanb. 1877CZCzech poet, publicist and translator (1877–1946)
- Walter Tomanb. 1920ATAustrian university teacher, psychologist and writer (1920-2003)
- Jan Tomanb. 1933CZCzech botanist (1933-1996)
- Ladislav Tomanb. 1934CZCzechoslovak volleyballist (1934-2018)
- Jiří Tomanb. 1938CHSwiss university teacher (1938–2020)
- Andy Tomanb. 1962GBEnglish footballer (born 1962)
- Anna Tomanb. 1993GBEnglish field hockey player
- Bennet Tomanb. 1997Canadian figure skater
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 4.8K | #156 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 4.8K | #156 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 4.8K | #158 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.9K | #11,104 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.7K | #10,951 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.5K | #12,133 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 885 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 461 | #12,097 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 304 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 304 | #10,960 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 277 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 277 | #11,809 |
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 surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Toman mean, and where does it come from?
- A division of 10,000 men in the Mongolian army. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Toman?
- A machine transcription gives /toʊmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Toman have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 4.8 thousand people named Toman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled toman.
- Where is Toman most common?
- Toman is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Toman?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 4,755 people named Toman, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Toman compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Toman is the 117th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tomanThe 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, “Toman” — the 117th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.