Tomala
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tomala/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tomala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country, where it is the 31st most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Polish Tomała or Spanish Tomala.
- ECEcuador1 in 419(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 5.3K
- ESSpain1 in 110K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- Sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- 1 in 419 (inferred from the name graph)
40,360 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Polish Tomała or Spanish Tomala.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tomala 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #31 | 40,360 | 1 in 419 | 40K | Tomala | 41 |
| PL Poland | #589 | 7,233 | 1 in 5.3K | 3.7K | Tomala | 91 |
| US United States | — | 574 | 1 in 580K | 603 | Tomala | 136 |
| ES Spain | — | 455 | 1 in 110K | 455 | Tomala | 45 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 599K | — | Tomala | 11 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 169 | 1 in 63K | 169 | Tomala | 19 |
| NO Norway | — | 70 | 1 in 78K | 70 | Tomala | 5 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 51 | 1 in 107K | 51 | Tomala | 10 |
40,360 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anna Stephanb. 1834HUnot in their usual nameGerman singer (1834-1862)
- Mieczysław Tomalab. 1921PLPolish economist, political scientist, diplomat and translator
- Jerzy Tomalab. 1926PLPolish economist
- Karin Tomalab. 1940PLPolish sinologist
- Józef Tomalab. 1959PLPolish politician and deputy
- Grzegorz Tomalab. 1974PLPolish footballer
- Dawid Tomalab. 1989PLPolish race walker
- Petr Tomalab. 1990CZbadminton player
- Katarzyna Piotrkowska-TomalaPLPolish veterinary scientist
- Robert TomalaPLresearcher
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 36 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Tomala mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Polish Tomała or Spanish Tomala. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Tomala?
- A machine transcription gives /tomala/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Tomala have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 40 thousand people named Tomala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tomala.
- Where is Tomala most common?
- Tomala is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 419 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tomala?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 40,360 people named Tomala in 2024, about 1 in 419 residents.
- How common is Tomala compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Tomala is the 31st most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tomalaThe 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, “Tomala” — the 31st most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.