Given name & surname · also Latin
Tomé
“twin”
Tomé is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Aramaic. It is used in Portuguese and Galician.
Original Aramaicתאומא
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Tomé comes from Latin, and ultimately from Aramaic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Galician usage, Tomé developed from Θωμᾶς. In Galician usage, Tomé developed from תאומא.
Tomé’s family of names
In Galician usage, Tomé developed from the Ancient Greek form Θωμᾶς. In Galician usage, Tomé has a conventional equivalent in the English form Thomas. In Portuguese usage, Tomé has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Tomasz.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Tomé has relatives in 11 languages. Lines run from its Aramaic roots to each of them.
Aramaicwhere Tomé comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 27
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- תאומאroot · Aramaic
- ThomasEnglish, French
- Tommyequivalent
- Tomasequivalent
- Tommieequivalent
- Tomequivalent
- Tommiequivalent
- Tomaequivalent
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- Tomiequivalent
- TommasoItalian
- TomaszPolish
- Thomaequivalent
- Tomyequivalent
- Thomequivalent
- Tomažequivalent
- Tomasoequivalent
- Fomaequivalent
- Tamásequivalent
- Фомаequivalent
- Tomosequivalent
- Toomasequivalent
- Tomášequivalent
- Tomassoequivalent
- 多馬Chinese
- ΘωμάςGreek
- Tomásalso known as · Spanish, Portuguese
- Θωμᾶςroot · Ancient Greek
People named Tomé
- Tomé PiresPortuguese apothecary and diplomat1465–1540
- Tomé de SousaGovernor General of Brazil1503–1579
- Tomé Vera CruzSao Tome and Principe politicianborn 1953
- Tomé de Barros QueirósPortuguese politician (1872-1925)
- Tomé MakhwelihaMozambican Catholic priestborn 1945
- Thomas I of Jerusalempatriarch of Jerusalem750–821
- Tomé Ferreira da SilvaBrazilian Roman Catholic priestborn 1961
- Tomé VelhoPortuguese architect and sculptor1555–1632
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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