TomÂ
surname · Latin script
Tom is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Deverbal from tomar (“to take”).
- JPJapan≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 76K
- RORomania≈1 in 712
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 309 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 712 (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Toma in US United States, JP Japan, RO Romania and 4 more.
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)
Deverbal from tomar (“to take”).
Sources 6
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The African book of names
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tom 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #299 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 712 | — | Toma | 50 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Toma | 70 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Toma | 54 |
| US United States | — | 4,399 | 1 in 76K | 4.6K | Toma | 309 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Toma | 29 |
| SE Sweden | — | 917 | 1 in 11K | 917 | Toma | 26 |
| MD Moldova | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 241 | Toma | 5 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 138 | — | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); e-services.md — living population register; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tom mean, and where does it come from?
- Deverbal from tomar (“to take”). Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and The African book of names and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Tom have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Tom in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled toma.
- How common is the name TomÂ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,399 people named Tom in 2010, about 1 in 76 thousand residents.
- How common is Tom compared with other names?
- In Romania, Tom is the 299th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Tom” — the 299th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.