Tomiła
For years no girl in Poland got this name. Then three did in 2025, a first small stir for a Slavic name most Poles have never come across. At root it means "dear".
Tomiła Pronunciation
Tomiła is pronounced to-MEE-wah (/tɔˈmiwa/).
What Tomiła means
Where Tomiła comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tomiła grows from Slavic soil. It draws on the old name element -mił, the same piece found in Bogumił and Miłosz. That element means dear, beloved.
The masculine counterpart is Tomił. It stays close to the same plain sense, the meaning the Slavs pressed into their compound names. Tomił and Tomiła share one root and cross the line of gender by a single ending.
Here the meaning sits on the surface. Polish still keeps miły, dear or pleasant, from the very same root. Miła, kochana is no later gloss added by scholars. The name says beloved and means it.
Short and old. On a Polish class register today, Tomiła reads as rare, set among the Tomasz and Zofia lines. Its root, -mił, still means dear.
How many people are named Tomiła
1 in 980167 women in Poland is named Tomiła. 23 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9181 among female names.
Tomiła's popularity over time
3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1376 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024.
Tomiła as a middle name
Tomiła is a first name for 23 women in Poland and a middle name for another 10, a 70/30 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2496th, between Tiziana (10) and Tushar (10).
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#2494 Thủy10
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#2495 Tiziana10
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#2496 Tomiła10
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#2497 Tushar10
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#2498 Ulrike10