Tomei

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.

Tomei is one spelling over 6 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.

• English41%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Tomei in English.

• Spanish13%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Tomei in Spanish.

• Ukrainian9.4%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Tomei in Ukrainian.

• French8.8%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Tomei in French.

• Italian8.5%

  redução popular de Tomasi, Tolomei ou Bartolomei.

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• Portuguese5.1%

  first-person singular preterite indicative of tomar

  as a word·kaikki.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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Tomei is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Italy

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Tomeï

• French surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Italy, Canada

  Also written Tomeï, Toméi, Toméï

• Italian surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, Canada, United Kingdom

  Also written Tomeî, Tomeï, Tomëi

• a separate name5 spellings in the group

  Also written Tomëi, Toméi, Tōmei, Tomeï

• Hebrew surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Israel

  Also written Tomey, טומיי, Tomai

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

• Annemarie Tomeib. 1928DEGerman politician (1928-2021)
• Carolyn Tomeib. 1936USAmerican politician
• Concetta Tomeib. 1945USAmerican actress
• Paolo Emilio Tomeib. 1947ITItalian ecologist (born 1947)
• Marisa Tomeib. 1964USAmerican actress (born 1964)
• Yumi Tomeib. 1972JPJapanese association football player
• Matteo Tomeib. 1984ITItalian association football player
• Francesco Tomeib. 1985ITItalian bicycle racer
• Maria Antonietta TomeiITItalian archaeologist
• Renato TomeiITItalian anglist and composer

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Tomei mean, and where does it come from?

first-person singular preterite indicative of tomar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How do you pronounce Tomei?

A machine transcription gives /ˈtɑmaɪ/ (IPA) for English.

In which country does Tomei have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 4.4 thousand people named Tomei in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tomei.

How common is the name Tomei?

In the United States, the national register counted 1,045 people named Tomei in 2010, about 1 in 318 thousand residents.