Toma

Where Toma comes from

Toma hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1925
    Toma Caragiu born
    Romanian actor
  2. 1973
    First appearance
    #1,238 among boys, 44 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1974
    Peak, #882
    84 babies named Toma — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1975
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,787.
  5. 1993
    Toma Nikiforov born
    Belgian judoka
  6. 1999
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Toma Nikiforov · Belgian judoka, born 1993
  • Toma Caragiu · Romanian actor, 1925–1977
  • Toma Simionov · Canoe racer, born 1955
  • Toma Junior Popov · French badminton player, born 1998
  • Toma Rosandić · Croatian sculptor, architect (1878—1958), 1878–1958

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.