Given name & surname · also Ancient Greek

Tumas

Tumas is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek, ultimately from Aramaic. It is used in Old French.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Tumas comes from Ancient Greek, and ultimately from Aramaic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς, from Aramaic תאומא, from Aramaic תאמא.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Tumas’s family of names

Tumas has a conventional equivalent in the English form Thomas. Tumas has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Tomasz. Tumas has a related form in THUMAS.

Walk Tumas’s family in the name graph

TumasTomasThumasTómasThomasTomasz

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Around the world

Tumas has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Aramaic roots to each of them.

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5 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 3

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

If you love Tumas, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Aramaic

Tummas

“twin”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Aramaic

Tomass

Tomass is a masculine given name from Aramaic. It is used in Latvian.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Aramaic

Tamás

Tamás is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Aramaic. It is used in Hungarian.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Aramaic

Tomàs

Tomàs is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek, ultimately from Aramaic. It is used in Catalan.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Aramaic

Dümăs

“twin”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Ancient Greek

Tucídides

Tucídides is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Portuguese.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Ancient Greek

Lukáš

“man from Lucania”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Ancient Greek

Lùcas

“man from Lucania”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Sibling ideas

Names that share Tumas’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.