Given name & surname
Tomer
“a man of tall stature”
Tomer is used as a given name and a surname. One Hebrew interpretation is “a man of tall stature.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “a man of tall stature.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1982. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tomer through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 449
- 449 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 24 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,708 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,708 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 24 in 2000. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 842 as a first name in 2020; 879 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.
Tomer’s family of names
Tomer has a related form in Tomar. Tomer has a related form in Tomir. Tomer has a related form in Tomor.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Tomer
- Tomer HemedIsraeli association footballerborn 1987
- Tomer SisleyIsraeli-French actor and comedianborn 1974
- Tomer CaponeIsraeli actorborn 1985
- Tomer ChencinskiIsraeli-Canadian footballerborn 1984
- Tomer YosefIsraeli singer, songwriter, actorborn 1975
- Tomer HeymannIsraeli documentary filmmakerborn 1970
- Tomer FrankelIsraeli swimmerborn 2000
- Tomer SteinhauerIsraeli basketball player (born 1966)
- Tomer Ben YosefIsraeli footballerborn 1979
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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