Tommaso

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Tommaso

Say it: tom-MAH-zoh

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Meaning

From Aramaic te'oma 'twin'.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Its wave through time

Rare in the records

In the United States

542 babies given this name since 1967
At its height in 2019, about 1 in 85,000 boys
17 babies in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

The family of the name

English	Thomas
French	Thomas
Spanish	Tomás

Famous bearers

Tommaso d'Aquino (Thomas Aquinas)
Tommaso di Ser Giovanni, called Masaccio

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TamsinGirlCornish contraction of Thomasina, feminine of Thomas, from Aramaic te'oma 'twin'.Renaissance

Where this comes from

Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
Medieval and Renaissance Italian records, such as the Florentine tax survey of 1427
National birth statistics of European countries source
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.