Tuma
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Plg. Tūmaitis ižr.), Tumaitis toliau žr
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈtumə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tuma is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 86th most common surname.
- CZCzechia1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 40K
- HUHungary≈1 in 48K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
4,728 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Тума in TR Türkiye.
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)
Plg. Tūmaitis ižr.), Tumaitis toliau žr. Tumas. 1080
Sources 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tuma 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #86 | 4,728 | 1 in 2.3K | 4.7K | Tuma | 70 |
| US United States | — | 2,484 | 1 in 134K | 2.5K | Tuma | 57 |
| UG Uganda | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 57K | 1 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 665 | 1 in 318K | 665 | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 181K | — | Тума | 3 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Tuma | 10 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Tuma | 3 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 25 | 1 in 84K | 25 | — | 1 |
4,728 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017, counting the spelling tůma. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Tuma 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 Swahili, short form used from Fatma
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Immortal.
as a nameThe African book of names
In German, s. Thomas
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In jpx-pro, edge, side, rim; skirt, lap
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In kaw, head louse
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)
- Alexander Tumab. 1888ATAustrian furrier and writer
- Maria Gisela Tumab. 1905ITwriter
- Dušan Tumab. 1943SIYugoslav canoeist
- Eugenio Tumab. 1945CLChilean politician
- Adolf Tumab. 1956ATAustrian lithographer
- Tanja Tumab. 1964SISlovenian writer
- Vítězslav Tumab. 1971CZCzech soccer player
- Florian Tumab. 1977ATfigure skater
- Scott TumaUSAmerican musician
- Roman TumaCZresearcher (ORCID 0000-0003-0047-0013)
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 48 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.5K | #12,488 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.4K | #11,818 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,315 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 665 | #13,170 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 241 | #6,975 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 240 | #5,079 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 25 | #11,922 |
| UG Uganda | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #470 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 11
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- 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
- How do you pronounce Tuma?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtumə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Tuma mean?
- Recorded meaning: Plg. Tūmaitis ižr.), Tumaitis toliau žr.
- In which country does Tuma have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 4.7 thousand people named Tuma, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tuma.
- Where is Tuma most common?
- Tuma is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tuma?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 4,728 people named Tuma, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Tuma compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Tuma is the 86th most common surname of 114,573 surnames 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/tumaThe 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, “Tuma” — the 86th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.