Tomà

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Tomà is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Deverbal from tomar (“to take”).

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 14K
  • DKDenmark1 in 25K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

4,399 people, 2010

Sources
104 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Toma in US United States, ES Spain, CH Switzerland.

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)

Deverbal from tomar (“to take”).

Sources 6

  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • The African book of names
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tomà 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.

Where Tomà is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4,3991 in 76K4.6KToma50
ES Spain1,6371 in 31K1.6KToma7
BR Brazil1,1861 in 179K1.2K——
PL Poland9181 in 42K483——
SE Sweden9171 in 11K917—2
CH Switzerland5811 in 14K581Toma16
DK Denmark2311 in 25K231——
NO Norway1761 in 31K308——

4,399 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Spanish surname29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Peru, Argentina, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Toma, Tomã, Tomá, Tôma, Tōmä

  • English surname64 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, Bulgarian, Japanese

    Also written Toma, Тома, Tomae, Toema, To-Ma

  • Slovak surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia, United States, Romania

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Toma, Tomá, Tóma, Tomã

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Tōma, Toma, Tomá, Tomã

  • Khmer surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States

    Also written Toma

3 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Tomà 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 Catalan, third-person singular preterite indicative 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Tomà
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20244#118,617

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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 Tomà mean, and where does it come from?
Deverbal from tomar (“to take”). Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and The African book of names and 4 other sources.
In which country does Tomà have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Tomà, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled toma.
Where is Tomà most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tomà is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Tomà?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,399 people named Tomà in 2010, about 1 in 76 thousand residents.

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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, “Tomà”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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