Given name & surname
Toma
Toma is a masculine given name from English. It is used in Italian, Lithuanian, and Tokelauan.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1929. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Toma through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 874
- 658 boys · 216 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 105 babies
- 2025
- 26
- #4,131 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +57%
- Rising fast
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 26 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,131 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 56.7% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 84 in 1974. In 2025, New York had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (8). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,132 as a first name in 2020; 4,636 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Toma’s family of names
In Romanian usage, Toma has a conventional equivalent in the French form Thomas. In Tokelauan usage, Toma was borrowed from the English form Tom. In Romanian usage, Toma has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Tommaso.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Toma has relatives in 7 languages. Lines run from its English roots to each of them.
Englishwhere Toma comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 6
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.
People named Toma
- Toma NikiforovBelgian judokaborn 1993
- Toma SimionovCanoe racerborn 1955
- Toma CaragiuRomanian actor (1925–1977)
- Toma Junior PopovFrench badminton playerborn 1998
- Toma RosandićCroatian sculptor, architect (1878—1958)
- Toma Vučić PerišićSerbian politician1788–1859
- Toma EnacheRomanian film directorborn 1970
- Toma FilaSerbian lawyerborn 1941
- Toma TomasAssyrian nationalist and guerilla fighter of the Iraqi Communist Party1924–1996
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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