Tomo
Tomo, also written Thomas. Attested in Spain, borne by about 52 people in the registers this map holds.
Also written
A person linked these — Wikidata's «said to be the same as», or a family archive that worked it out from documents.
Only sounds alike
An algorithm's guess. Useful for casting a net, and not evidence.
What Wikidata says this name is
Copied from Wikidata, not worked out here. It is crowd-sourced and wrong in places, which is why the item is linked below rather than the claim simply repeated.
- Japanese the language of the name
Which is not where a family is from. A Polish surname can be borne by people whose forebears never saw Poland, and often is.
Q26437594 on Wikidata ↗ — the item every line above came from.
What Wiktionary says this name is
Copied from the surname template on Wiktionary, not worked out here, and not from its etymology prose. Anyone may edit it; the page and the revision it was read at are linked below.
- Slovak recorded as a surname in these languages
A language here is the language of the NAME, not a country a family came from — the same caveat the Wikidata section carries, and worth repeating rather than assumed read.
Tomo on Wiktionary ↗ — read at revision 90833580. Text from Wiktionary, by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
It is also the name of a place
This is as close to an origin as this map will go. A surname that is also a place name often came from it — and often did not: plenty are occupations or patronymics that happen to collide with a place, and plenty of places are named after a family rather than the other way round. It is a fact with a source, which is more than an etymology page offers.
- Tomo Italy pop. 411
- Thomas United States of America pop. 1,244 a spelling of the name
- Tōmi Japan pop. 30,122 only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling
- Toma Burkina Faso pop. 15,851 only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling
- Tōma Japan pop. 6,319 only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling
- Tom United States of America only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling
Where it is borne, and where a record names it
Country by country
Each country below can carry up to three different kinds of evidence, and none of them is the same claim. A register is a head-count — a state counted these people. A record is one document naming the surname on that ground, narrower evidence and often much older. And a volume overlapping these dates is a document from the right place and years — never a document known to name this surname. None of the three ever means the name exists in that country and nowhere else, or that it exists nowhere but here.
Spain
52 Borne — a state counted them — Frecuencia de apellidos, Censos de población (INE).
- PARES Images, free, no account Madrid, Spain
- Geneanet Partly free, partly paid
- Internet Archive Images, free, no account San Francisco, United States
- Arolsen Archives Images, free, no account Bad Arolsen, Germany
- BillionGraves Images, free, no account
- Find a Grave Images, free, no account
12,679 of 35,936 volumes held for Spain overlap the 1850s, 1890s, 1920s, 1950s, 1980s and 1990s — the decades Tomo is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Tomo. The commonest kinds: Church and parish registers, Probate, land and notarial, Civil registration and vital records, Immigration and emigration. See everything this atlas holds for Spain →
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