Toma
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Toma is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A semi-hard Italian cheese from Piedmont.
- JPJapan≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 76K
- RORomania≈1 in 712
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 309 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 712 (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 semi-hard Italian cheese from Piedmont
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Toma 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #299 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 712 | — | Toma | 50 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Toma | 70 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Toma | 54 |
| US United States | — | 4,399 | 1 in 76K | 4.6K | Toma | 309 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Toma | 29 |
| SE Sweden | — | 917 | 1 in 11K | 917 | Toma | 26 |
| MD Moldova | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 241 | Toma | 5 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 138 | — | 2 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); e-services.md — living population register; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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)
Toma 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 Italian, redução popular e coloquial de Tomasi, Tomaso.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Tommasi
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
Significant.
as a nameThe African book of names
In Russian, "silent."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Irish, vocative plural of tom (“bush, shrub”)
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)
- Alexandru Tomab. 1875RORomanian writer
- Emile Toumab. 1919ILnot in their usual namePalestinian historian
- András Tomab. 1925HUHungarian soldier (1925-2004)
- Svetlana Tomab. 1947MDSoviet and Russian actress
- Salvatore Tomab. 1951ITItalian poet (1951–1987)
- Víctor García Tomab. 1954PEPeruvian lawyer
- Sanda Tomab. 1956RORomanian rower
- Ruth Tomab. 1956DEGerman screenwriter
- Masaaki Tōmab. 1973JPJapanese football referee
- Sergiu Tomab. 1987MDMoldovan-Emirati judoka (born 1987)
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 82 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.6K | #6,985 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.4K | #7,558 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.2K | #9,279 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 917 | #1,073 |
Reference works 10
- 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 given-name tokens
- 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)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Toma mean, and where does it come from?
- A semi-hard Italian cheese from Piedmont Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Toma have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Toma in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled toma.
- What are other forms of the name Toma?
- In the etymology graph, Maas, Thoma and Tomass are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Toma?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,399 people named Toma in 2010, about 1 in 76 thousand residents.
- How common is Toma compared with other names?
- In Romania, Toma is the 299th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Toma?
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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, “Toma” — the 299th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.