Tomas
Masculine · Aramaic roots · “twin”
Tomas is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 30,703 boys against 27 girls since 1880.
Tomas is the form Thomas takes when it crosses into Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Lithuanian and Scandinavian mouths — the same ancient name, worn a little smoother, with the 'h' set aside. It has been on American records as long as those records have existed, never crowding the playground but never disappearing either. Two syllables, open vowels, and a built-in short form that everyone on earth already knows.
How old is the name Tomas?
Tomas was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Tomas alive today was born around 1989, making them about 36 years old. About 25,000 people named Tomas are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tomas most popular?
Tomas peaked in 1881, reaching #395 nationally. Today it ranks #691, 296 places below that high. See the whole 1881 chart.
Where it comes from
From Te'oma (Aramaic) to Tomas
The story of Tomas
The name begins in Aramaic as te'oma, 'twin', and reaches the wider world through the apostle called Thomas in the Gospels — the one the Greek text also names Didymos. Greek and Latin carried it across the Mediterranean, and medieval Christendom spread it into nearly every European language, where each one filed down a different edge: Thomas in England and France, Tommaso in Italy, Tomasz in Poland, Tomás in Spain, Portugal and Ireland. Tomas, without the 'h', is the shape it settled into for Czech, Lithuanian, Swedish and Norwegian speakers, and the unaccented spelling of the Spanish and Portuguese form. In the United States it arrives by several of those roads at once, which is why it clusters where Spanish-speaking families are most numerous.
Meaning
twin
From Aramaic te'oma, 'twin'. The Gospel of John glosses the apostle's name with the Greek word Didymos, which means the same thing.
How the name formed
- Te'omaAramaic
- ThomasGreek
- ThomasLatin
- Tomás / Tomáš
- Tomas
Related forms: Tomás · Tomás · Tomáš · Thomas · Tommaso · Tomasz
Pronouncing Tomas
TOH-mahs
English speakers usually stress the first syllable. In Spanish and Portuguese the accented form Tomás puts the stress on the second: toh-MAHS. Both are correct for their own language, so it helps to decide early which one your family will use.
Nicknames for Tomas
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What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1880
- Most boys named
- 2004515 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #395reached in 1881
- Change vs 2022
- +2.3%394 in 2025, from 385
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Tomas in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tomás in Spanish — spelling variant
- Tomás in Portuguese — spelling variant
- Tomáš in Czech — same name
- Thomas in English — same name
- Tommaso in Italian — same name
- Tomasz in Polish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Tomass among us
people named Tomas are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 4,335 born in 2025 was named Tomas
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Tomas sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Tomas is headed
Tomas should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Tomas beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tomas in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Shortens to Tom and Tommy without any explanation needed anywhere in the English-speaking world.
- Works unchanged in Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Lithuanian, Swedish and Norwegian — a rare thing for a name this short.
- A documented line running from Aramaic through Greek and Latin into nearly every European language.
- Recognized on sight everywhere, yet a child is unlikely to share it with a classmate.
- Neither newly coined nor tied to one fashion moment; its record on American charts has been continuous.
- It will be written as Thomas by people who are not listening carefully — on forms, in emails, on class lists. Most bearers make peace with correcting it.
- The accent is a lifelong small decision: Tomás is standard in Spanish and Portuguese, but American systems drop diacritics constantly, so the two spellings will follow him around.
- Stress shifts between languages, so relatives may say the name differently from teachers. Families generally settle this by simply choosing one and repeating it.
- If you want distance from Thomas and its Toms, this is not the name that gives it — they share the same short forms entirely.
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Masculine · Aramaic roots · #691 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Tomass are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 25,000 people named Tomas are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tomas in 2025?
- Tomas ranks #691 among US boy names in 2025, with 394 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tomas?
- About 1 in every 4,335 US boys born in 2025 was named Tomas — 394 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tomas with classmates?
- Tomas will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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