Toma Family History
Toma Name Meaning
Romanian and Croatian: from the personal name Toma an equivalent of Thomas . Compare Tomas . Italian French Polish Slovak and Hungarian: from a short pet or dialect form of a personal name equivalent to Thomas (Italian Tommaso French Thomas Polish Tomasz Slovak Tomáš Hungarian Tamás). Albanian: from the personal name Tomë (definite form Toma) an equivalent of Thomas . Assyrian/Chaldean: from the personal name Tōmā Syriac equivalent of Thomas . See also Tuma 2 compare Touma Arabic: from a variant of the personal name Tuma 2 ‘Thomas’. Japanese (Tōma): variously written with characters used phonetically; two such combinations are 唐間 ‘Tang Chinese space’ and 當真 ‘appropriate truth’ found mostly in the Ryūkyū Islands.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022