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Toma

#4,130 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Twin, through Tom

Toma has been given to 874 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #4,130 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1974, with 84 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 75% boys, 25% girls all-time.

Babies named Toma, 2025

1 in 128,000

Toma over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Toma over time

In 2025, Toma went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19292025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Toma: meaning, origin, and history

Twin, through Tom

English

What Toma means

Toma belongs to the name family reached through Toma → Tom → Thomas. Its meaning is “twin”.

Origin, language, and formation

Toma is used in Lithuanian and Tokelauan. Its origins include English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tom and Thomas.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tokelauan, Toma is pronounced [ˈto.ma].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 658 boys were recorded with the name Toma between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 84 in 1974; its best national rank was #884 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,671 in 2020 to #4,130 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,719 in 2015 to #4,130 in 2025.

In the United States, 216 girls were recorded with the name Toma between 1929 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1973; its best national rank was #2,547 in 1943.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Toma?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 128,000
26 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 65,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,130
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
88,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Toma sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Toma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tomas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Toma was born before 2000 — so the typical Toma is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
34.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
658
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 34.7% of all recorded uses (228).

Is Toma rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,286
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,541
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,589
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.63×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.0%
Peak was 1974 (84)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#884
1974

Spellings of Toma

Toma is not the most common spelling — Thomas is, with 64.5% against Toma's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Toma is used

Across 1910–2025, Toma was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 632,915 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2North Carolina1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Toma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Toma around the world

Where Toma ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #577
    in 2025
  • France
    1979–2025
    #3,438
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Toma by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,130
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,541
Best rank ever
#884
1974
Peak year
1974
84 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
658
Count in 2025
26

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,547
1943
Peak year
1973
21 that year
First recorded
1929
Last recorded
1998
All-time count
216
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Toma

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Toma

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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