Stoma
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: One of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/stoʊmə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stoma is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.8M(measured from records)
- LVLatvia≈1 in 43K
- BYBelarus≈1 in 118K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
≈340 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
One of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Stoma is read(measured from records)
Stoma is one spelling over 3 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.
- English61%
One of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Ukrainian9.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Stoma in Ukrainian.
- Polish6.9%
instrumental of sto
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Stoma 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.
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Stoma is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Plg. Stoma (žr.), toliau plg. brus. Стома, ukr. Стома (M. Бирыла, 1969, c. 391), rus. Стом, Стома (CAMC IV 282). STOMBRÄUSKIS Rdn —žr. Stumbräuskas
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Russian, dim of Istoma.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Dutch, stoma (one of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In got, romanization of 𐍃𐍄𐍉𐌼𐌰
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)
- Władysław Stomab. 1888PLPolish actor (1888-1968)
- Saulius Stomab. 1954LTLithuanian writer and politician
- Paweł Stomab. 1983PLPolish chess player
- Igor Stomab. 1988BYresearcher
- Anna Michalak-StomaPLresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-4599-6249
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 14 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 136 | #130,360 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 130 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 130 | #122,534 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 130 | #23,826 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 125 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 125 | #25,098 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 117 | #142,108 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Stoma mean, and where does it come from?
- One of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Stoma?
- A machine transcription gives /stoʊmə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Stoma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 337 people named Stoma in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stoma.
- How common is the name Stoma?
- In Poland, the national register counted 255 people named Stoma in 2026, about 1 in 150 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stomaThe 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, “Stoma”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.