Loma
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A lobe, flap or fringe bordering the toe of a bird
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Loma is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- CACanada
- USUnited States
- RURussia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 148 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Liberia/Guinea: people who speak a Mande language; also Hebrew name Salome 'peaceful'.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Loma is read(measured from records)
Loma is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English24%
A lobe, flap or fringe bordering the toe of a bird.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
long., people, Liberia, Guinea
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish9.3%
a long hill or mountain
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Loma counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 805 | Loma | 148 |
| CA Canada | — | — | Loma | 27 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Loma | 32 |
| RU Russia | — | — | Loma | 3 |
| BR Brazil | — | 969 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 613 | — | 19 |
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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Loma is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Liberia/Guinea: people who speak a Mande language; also Hebrew name Salome 'peaceful'.
as a nameAfrican Names
In men, v. , to give a hand- ful of food ; “the food so given. Wa bi lomé hou
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In Hawaiian, Rome (a major city, the capital of Italy and the Italian region of Lazio, located on the Tiber River; the ancient capital of the Roman Empire)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Arsenije Lomab. 1778RSSerbian revolutionary
- Loma Smithb. 1913USbadminton player (1913–2006)
- José Antonio de la Lomab. 1924ESSpanish screenwriter (1924–2004)
- Aleksandar Lomab. 1955RSSerbian philologist and member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts
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(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 969 | #9,552 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 689 | #35,228 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 613 | #6,778 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 613 | #6,770 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 609 | #36,695 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 437 | #46,000 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Loma come from?
- Liberia/Guinea: people who speak a Mande language; also Hebrew name Salome 'peaceful'. Recorded by African Names.
- What does the name Loma mean?
- In English, A lobe, flap or fringe bordering the toe of a bird.
- In which country does Loma have the most bearers?
- Loma is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled loma.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lomaThe 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, “Loma”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.