Given name & surname
Tomasa
Tomasa is a feminine given name from Spanish. It is used in Spanish and Cebuano.
Original Spanishโตมาซา
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1887. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tomasa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,198
- 0 boys · 3,198 girls
- Most popular year
- 1925
- 93 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #11,843 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +58%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 11,843 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 93 in 1925. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 6,978 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tomasa’s family of names
In Spanish usage, Tomasa can be written in the Roman alphabet as โตมาซา.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 3
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Tomasa
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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