Toma
A short form of Tomasz, carrying the Hebrew sense "twin". It sits firmly on the male side and stays rare: most Poles have never met one.
Toma Pronunciation
Toma is pronounced TO-mah (/ˈtɔma/).
What Toma means
Where Toma comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Toma reaches back to a Hebrew and Aramaic root, te'oma, meaning twin. From that same root grew Tomasz, the fuller Polish variant, which the schoolyard clips down to Tomek. Toma is the lean form. It stays close to the original word for a paired birth.
The apostle Thomas held that meaning openly. The Greek gospels gloss his name as Didymus, the word for twin, translating the Aramaic without softening it. The sense of a double, a second born alongside, has stayed with the name for a long time.
On the Polish calendar, Tomasz keeps his imieniny in late December. A child named Toma sits at the short end of that lineage. Twin is what the name says, in Hebrew and in every form it took after.
How many people are named Toma
1 in 273669 men in Poland is named Toma. 90 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3709 among male names.
Toma's popularity over time
2 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1853 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2021.
Toma as a middle name
Toma is a first name for 90 men in Poland and a middle name for another 9, a 91/9 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3427th, between Tolek (9) and Tuna (9).
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#3425 Tiziano9
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#3426 Tolek9
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#3427 Toma9
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#3428 Tuna9
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#3429 Tuomas9