Toman Family History
Toman Name Meaning
Czech Polish and Croatian; Slovak (also Tomáň): from a pet form or other derivative of the personal name Czech and Slovak Tomáš Croatian Toma Polish Tomasz (see Thomas ). Slovenian: from an old derivative of the personal name Tomaž or of its old form Toma (see Thomas ) or a Slovenized form of the German cognate Thomann . Irish (Down): shortened form of O'Toman an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Tuamáin ‘descendant of Tuamán’ a personal name based on a diminutive of tuaim ‘hill’. English (Cornwall): occupational name from the Middle English personal name T(h)om(me) (see Thom ) + -man ‘servant of T(h)om(me)’. English (Cornwall): nickname or status name from Middle English t(o)unman t(o)unmon ‘villein tenant farmer; villager’ (Old English tūnmann). English (Cornwall): habitational name from Tumholme in Owston (Yorkshire). The placename probably derives from an Old Norse personal name Tumbi + Old Norse holmr ‘small island water meadow’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022