Tomeo
surname · Latin script
Meaning: redução popular e coloquial de Tomaso, Tolomeo ou Bartolomeo
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈtoʊmioʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tomeo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 164K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 512K
- UYUruguay1 in 9.1K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈890 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
redução popular e coloquial de Tomaso, Tolomeo ou Bartolomeo.
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tomeo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 70K | listed | Tomeo | 20 |
| US United States | 650 | 1 in 512K | 664 | Tomeo | 184 |
| UY Uruguay | 374 | 1 in 9.1K | 374 | Tomeo | 19 |
| ES Spain | 309 | 1 in 162K | 309 | Tomeo | 50 |
| AR Argentina | 277 | 1 in 164K | 277 | Tomeo | 39 |
| SG Singapore | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Tomeo | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 54 | 1 in 156K | 54 | Tomeo | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Tomeo | 1 |
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 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeusb. 1456ITnot in their usual nameGreek scholar in Venice
- Antonio Donabella Tomeob. 1930UYUruguayan sculptor
- Javier Tomeob. 1932ESSpanish writer (1932–2013)
- Humberto Tomeob. 1933UYUruguayan painter (1933–1996)
- Ana María Tomeob. 1942UYUruguayan writer
- Alain Tomeob. 1966FRFrench politician
- Louis Tomeob. 2002USAmerican actor
- Silvana TomeoUYUruguayan film director
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 664 | #32,609 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 652 | #36,847 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 650 | #34,758 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 374 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 309 | #11,785 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 309 | #11,763 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 277 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 54 | #17,560 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Tomeo?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtoʊmioʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Tomeo mean?
- Recorded meaning: redução popular e coloquial de Tomaso, Tolomeo ou Bartolomeo.
- In which country does Tomeo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 885 people named Tomeo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tomeo.
- Where is Tomeo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tomeo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 9.1 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tomeo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 650 people named Tomeo in 2010, about 1 in 512 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tomeoThe 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, “Tomeo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.