Tomáš
A form of Tomasz, from the Hebrew for "twin". Only about 400 men in Poland carry this spelling, and no boys got it last year: most Poles have never met one.
Tomáš Pronunciation
Tomáš is pronounced TOMÁŠ (/tɔmáš/).
What Tomáš means
Where Tomáš comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name reaches back to Hebrew, to a word meaning twin. Polish took it in and shaped it as Tomasz, the form you meet on official records, with Tomek as the name that friends and family use.
The apostle called Thomas in the Gospels carried a second name, Didymus, which is simply the Greek word for twin. So the meaning survived across two languages before it ever arrived in Poland. Doubt attached itself to the figure later, in the phrase about a doubting Thomas, though that sense belongs to the story of one man and not to the name itself.
In a Polish class register, a Tomasz and a Tomek can be the same boy. The name is short and it holds. Its name-day falls in late December, close to Christmas, so many who carry it grow up sharing their imieniny with the holidays. Whatever else it gathers, the word underneath still means twin.
How many people are named Tomáš
1 in 48736 men in Poland is named Tomáš. 438 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1412 among male names.
Tomáš's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Tomáš as a middle name
Tomáš is a first name for 438 men in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 99/1 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5835th, between Todor (4) and Tope (4).
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#5834 Todor4
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#5835 Tomáš4
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#5836 Tope4
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