Tomas

Where Tomas comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Tomas.

Tomas through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #403 among boys, with 18 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #395
    18 babies named Tomas, its best rank.
  3. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #752.
  4. 1931
    Tomas Tranströmer born
    Swedish poet, psychologist and translator
  5. 1938
    Tomas Lindahl born
    Nobel prize winning Swedish biologist
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Tomas Tranströmer · Swedish poet, psychologist and translator, 1931–2015
  • Tomas Lindahl · Nobel prize winning Swedish biologist, born 1938
  • Tomas Brolin · Swedish footballer, born 1969
  • Tomas Danilevičius · Lithuanian footballer, born 1978
  • Tomas N'evergreen · Danish singer, born 1969

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.