Thome
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Variante de Thomas, du grec Thomas, « jumeau »; associé à saint Thomas l’Apôtre
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈθoʊm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thome is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 58K
- USUnited States1 in 105K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Thomé in LU Luxembourg.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variante de Thomas, du grec Thomas, « jumeau »; associé à saint Thomas l’Apôtre.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
How Thome is read(measured from records)
Thome is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English39%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Thome in English.
- Portuguese33%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Thome in Portuguese.
- German7.9%
Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Thomas; wohl lat. Genitiv von Thomas, evtl. auch aus frz. Sprachgebiet. Varianten um Thomä/Thomae/Thomé/Thomè.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Thomas; im Band mit Thome/Thomae/Thomä-Formen belegt.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Patronymisch zu Rufname Thomas, Kurzform/Variante von Thoma/Thome; 2 358 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Thomas
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
- French7.8%
Variante de Thomas, du grec Thomas, « jumeau »; associé à saint Thomas l’Apôtre.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
- Spanish7.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Thome in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thome counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #596 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 291 | Thome | 107 |
| US United States | — | 3,163 | 1 in 105K | 3.2K | Thome | 123 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 58K | 155 | Thome | 180 |
| SN Senegal | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Thome | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Thome | 15 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 280 | 1 in 12K | 280 | Thome | 12 |
| BE Belgium | — | 222 | 1 in 53K | 222 | Thome | 12 |
| LU Luxembourg | #930 | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Thomé | 10 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Thome is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, synonym of attome (“atom (fifteen ninety-fourths of a second)”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Otto Wilhelm Thoméb. 1840DEGerman botanist and botanical artist (1840-1925)
- John Macon Thomeb. 1843USAmerican-Argentine astronomer (1843-1908)
- Léon Thomeb. 1857FRFrench jockey
- André Thomeb. 1879FRFrench politician (1879-1916)
- Hubert Thomeb. 1892DEGerman politician (1892-1970)
- Rudolf Thomeb. 1939DEGerman film director
- Jim Thomeb. 1970USAmerican Hall of Fame baseball player
- Emerson Thomeb. 1972BRBrazilian association football player
- Stephan Thomeb. 1972DEGerman philosopher and author
- Joya Thomeb. 1990DEGerman director, actress, and screenwriter
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 9.5K | #1,367 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #10,189 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3K | #10,256 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,128 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 280 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 244 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 203 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 199 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 195 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 185 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 178 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 174 | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Thome?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈθoʊm/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Thome mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variante de Thomas, du grec Thomas, « jumeau »; associé à saint Thomas l’Apôtre.
- In which country does Thome have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Thome in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thome.
- Where is Thome most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Thome is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Thome?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,163 people named Thome in 2010, about 1 in 105 thousand residents.
- How common is Thome compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Thome is the 596th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thomeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Thome” — the 596th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.