Tomás
The Spanish form of Tomasz, from the Hebrew word for "twin". In Poland it stays rare: most Poles have never met a Tomás.
Tomás Pronunciation
Tomás is pronounced TOMÁS (/tɔmás/).
What Tomás means
Where Tomás comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name comes from the Aramaic and Hebrew word te'oma, meaning twin, and Polish renders that sense plainly as bliźniak. Long before it settled into Spanish as Tomás, it belonged to one of the twelve apostles, the one remembered for wanting proof before he would believe. Doubt gave the name a story that traveled.
Spain took to it early and never let go. Tomás de Aquino, the philosopher canonized in 1323, made the name a fixture in churches and lecture halls across the Spanish-speaking world. In Poland the same root grew its own branches: Tomasz on the birth certificate, Tomek among friends.
A Polish boy called Tomasz hears both forms daily. The teacher reads Tomasz from the class register; the yard shouts Tomek. Same child, two keys.
The meaning stays literal in a way many names lose. Twin is not a virtue attached later or a flower borrowed for its scent. It is a plain fact about a birth, older than the apostle and older than Spain, still legible in Tomás, Tomasz, and Tomek.
How many people are named Tomás
1 in 106731 men in Poland is named Tomás. 200 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2227 among male names.
Tomás's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Tomás as a middle name
Tomás is a first name for 200 men in Poland and a middle name for another 45, an 82/18 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1168th, between Thaddeus (45) and Wilson (45).
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#1166 Suresh45
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#1167 Thaddeus45
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#1168 Tomás45
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#1169 Wilson45
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#1170 Arif44