Given name & surname
Tomaz
Tomaz is a masculine given name. It is used in Breton.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Tomaz isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tomaz through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 62
- 62 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 1994. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 177 as a first name in 2020; 256 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.
Tomaz’s family of names
In Breton usage, Tomaz has a conventional equivalent in the French form Thomas.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Tomaz
- Tomaz DrumlAustrian Nordic combined skierborn 1988
- Tomaz SalomãoMozambican economist and politicianborn 1954
- Tomaz Vieira da CruzPortuguese poet1900–1960
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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