Tomka
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/toʊmkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tomka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovakia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 12K
- CZCzechia1 in 50K
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.
- Slovakia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
440 people, 1995
Highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tomka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK Slovakia | 440 | 1 in 12K | 440 | — | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | 212 | 1 in 50K | 212 | — | — |
| US United States | 188 | 1 in 1.8M | 227 | Tomka | 126 |
| CA Canada | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 801K | — | Tomka | 26 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Tomka | 16 |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | Tomka | 7 |
| HR Croatia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 451K | 52 | — | — |
440 people counted by JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census), 1995. 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; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tomka is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Muļķe
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- János Tomka Szászkyb. 1692HULutheran pastor, historian, teacher and geographer (1692-1762)
- Tomka Istvánb. 1855SKHungarian pianist and piano teacher
- Josef Tomkab. 1862CZcounty official in Domažlice and České Budějovice, Czechia (1862-??)
- Ágoston Tomkab. 1892HUHungarian writer, preacher (1892-1976)
- Gábor Tomkab. 1912HUHungarian biologist
- Péter Tomkab. 1940HUarchaeologist, museologist
- Miklós Tomkab. 1941HUHungarian sociologist (1941–2010)
- Peter Tomkab. 1956SKSlovak lawyer
- János Tomkab. 1967HUassociation football player
- Yuriy Tomkaresearcher
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 26 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 440 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 227 | #87,947 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 212 | #7,948 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 211 | #5,448 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 188 | #96,799 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 164 | #101,654 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
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 Tomka?
- A machine transcription gives /toʊmkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tomka have the most bearers?
- In Slovakia, the national register counted about 440 people named Tomka, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tomka most common?
- Tomka is densest in Slovakia, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tomka?
- In Slovakia, the national register counted 440 people named Tomka in 1995, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tomka?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tomkaThe 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, “Tomka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.