Tomas
About 30,730 American babies have been named Tomas since 1880, most of them around 2003. In 2025 it ranked 691st. About 25,000 Tomases are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Tomas boys named Tomas
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 30,730
- Estimated living today
- 25,000
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 2003
- Best rank
- 468th
- Rank in 2025
- 691st
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 27 / 30,703
How old the living Tomases are
born that year still alive today
Of the 30,730 babies given the name since 1880, about 25,000 are alive — 80 in every hundred. Roughly 6,700 of them are children and 2,400 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Tomass
- Tomas Tranströmer (1931–2015)Swedish poet, psychologist and translator
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937)Czechoslovak politician, statesman, sociologist and philosopher; first Czechoslovak president
- Tomas Lindahl (born 1938)Nobel prize winning Swedish biologist
- Tomáš Rosický (born 1980)Czech footballer
- Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548–1611)Spanish composer (c. 1548 – 1611)
- Tomás de Torquemada (1420–1498)Grand Inquisitor of Spain
- Tomáš Berdych (born 1985)Czech tennis player
- Tomáš Ujfaluši (born 1978)Czech association football player
People named Tomas with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Tomas is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Tomas is most concentrated in New Mexico (6.7×), Texas (4.5×), Arizona (2.6×), California (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2003
The most popular boys’ names the year Tomas peaked:
Tomas elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal boys | Tomás | 8,912 name registrations | 5th |
| England and Wales boys | Tomas | 4,335 | 209th |
| Norway boys | Tomas | 3,222 | 53rd |
| Ireland boys | Tomas +1 spelling | 3,135 | 77th |
| France boys | Tomas +1 spelling | 2,145 | 646th |
| Italy boys | Tomas | 1,841 | — |
| Switzerland boys | Tomás +2 spellings | 877 | 223rd |
| Belgium boys | Tomas +1 spelling | 663 | 280th |
| Spain boys | Tomas | 604 | 96th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Tomas | 513 | 102nd |
| Scotland boys | Tomas | 195 | 246th |
| Poland boys | Tomas +2 spellings | 182 birth registrations | 235th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Tomas: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Tomás | 203 | 0.016% | 305th |
| German boys | Switzerland | Tomas | 90 | 0.007% | 547th |
| German boys | Switzerland | Tomáš | 12 | 0.001% | 1,137th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Tomás | 366 | 0.084% | 80th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Tomas | 175 | 0.040% | 163rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Tomás | 14 | 0.021% | 73rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Tomas | 13 | 0.020% | 129th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Tomás | 4 | 0.108% | 16th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Tomas is most concentrated in Valais, where 0.15% of children were given it – 98 of them.
Tomas: rank by region
In 2025, Tomas was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Tomas | 914 | 5 |
| Brussels | Tomás | 265 | 5 |
In 2023, Tomas was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Tomas | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, Tomas was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wielkopolskie | Tomas | 215 | 3 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Tomas appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (265th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Tomas by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 6 | 447th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Tomas among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Tomas +1 spelling | 2,684 | 3,420 |
| the Netherlands boys | Tomas | 1,746 | 2,308 |
| the Netherlands girls | Tomas | — | 11 |
| Finland girls | Tomas | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Tomas lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 59,774 men called Tomas were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zamora | Tomas | 530 | 6.465 | 39 |
| Ciudad Real | Tomas | 1,350 | 5.498 | 40 |
| Salamanca | Tomas | 811 | 5.097 | 49 |
| Jaén | Tomas | 1,396 | 4.563 | 48 |
| Teruel | Tomas | 309 | 4.456 | 49 |
| Badajoz | Tomas | 1,451 | 4.421 | 49 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Tomas against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.