Tomko
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈtɑmkoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tomko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Slovak Tomko.
- USUnited States1 in 123K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 163K
- SKSlovakia1 in 3.6K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 288 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Slovak Tomko.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tomko 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Tomko | 1 |
| US United States | 2,710 | 1 in 123K | 2.7K | Tomko | 288 |
| SK Slovakia | 1,511 | 1 in 3.6K | 1.5K | — | 1 |
| EG Egypt | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 223K | — | Tomko | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 163K | 5 | Tomko | 50 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Tomko | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | 258 | 1 in 41K | 258 | — | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Tomko | 7 |
| PS Palestine | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Tomko | 2 |
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; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Tomko 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 Russian, Tomko, craftsman. 1458.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Jozef Tomkob. 1924SKSlovak cardinal and Roman Catholic archbishop
- Al Tomkob. 1931CACanadian professional wrestler (1931-2009)
- Dewey Tomkob. 1946USAmerican professional poker player (born 1946)
- Anton Tomkob. 1963SKSlovak ice hockey player (born 1963)
- Andrzej Tomkob. 1965PLPolish Catholic clergyman and theologian
- Brett Tomkob. 1973USAmerican baseball player
- Travis Tomkob. 1976USAmerican professional wrestler
- Sara Tomkob. 1983USAmerican actress
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 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,589 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.7K | #10,969 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.5K | #12,046 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 1.5K | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 258 | #6,480 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 257 | #4,880 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 5 | #230,412 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
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 Tomko mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Slovak Tomko. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Tomko?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtɑmkoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tomko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Tomko in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tomko.
- Where is Tomko most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tomko is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 3.6 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tomko?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,710 people named Tomko in 2010, about 1 in 123 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tomkoThe 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, “Tomko”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.