Tomi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Kalarbari (Nigeria): 'the people'; also Japanese: 'rich'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tomi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Finland it is the 94th most common given name.
- FIFinland1 in 349(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 3.4K
- HUHungary≈1 in 5.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tomi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- 1 in 349 (inferred from the name graph)
18,625 named Tommie, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
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)
Kalarbari (Nigeria): 'the people'; also Japanese: 'rich'
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tomi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 18,625as Tommie | 1 in 18K | 12K | Tomi | 126 |
| FI Finland | #94 | 15,965 | 1 in 349 | 17K | Tomi | 122 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Tomi | 22 |
| HU Hungary | #807 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Tomi | 46 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,420as Tommie | 1 in 7.2K | 1.4K | Tomi | 39 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 617 | 1 in 3.4K | 624 | — | 10 |
| EE Estonia | #820 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 41 | Tomi | 13 |
18,625 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling tommie. 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Tomi 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 English, Japanese; red
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In German, männl. Vom., Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Hungarian, a diminutive of the male given name Tamás
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of とみ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, inflection of tomar:
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)
- Jean-Thomas "Tomi" Ungererb. 1931FRFrench illustrator and writer (1931–2019)
- Tomi Poikolainenb. 1961FIFinnish archer and firefighter
- Tomi Rantamäkib. 1968FIFinnish male curler and coach
- Tomi Joutsenb. 1975FIFinnish singer
- Tomi Källarssonb. 1979FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Tomi Ameobib. 1988GBEnglish association football player (born 1988)
- Tomi Juricb. 1991AUAustralian soccer player (born 1993)
- Tomi Lahrenb. 1992USAmerican political commentator
- Tomi Adeyemib. 1993USNigerian-American author
- Tomi Horvatb. 1999SISlovenian association football player
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 74 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 17K | #126 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 16K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.4K | #5,880 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 624 | #530 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 617 | #261 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 394 | #5,880 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 377 | #3,356 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 287 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 210 | #473 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #15,503 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 20 | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2023 | 7 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- Is Tomi a male or female name?
- Tomi is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Tomi mean, and where does it come from?
- Kalarbari (Nigeria): 'the people'; also Japanese: 'rich' Recorded by African Names.
- What are other forms of the name Tomi?
- In the etymology graph, Thomas, Tom and Tomas are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Tuomas and Tuomo.
- In which country does Tomi have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Tommie, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tomi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tomi is densest in Finland — about 1 in 349 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tomi?
- In Finland, the national register counted 15,965 people named Tomi, about 1 in 349 residents.
- How common is Tomi compared with other names?
- In Finland, Tomi is the 94th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tomiThe 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, “Tomi” — the 94th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.