Toma is a unisex first name, but it has been given primarily to boys for a number of years.
At least in the US, the name Toma is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Toma each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Toma will meet someone with the same name. So, Toma is a very special name!
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Toma. Kids called Toma have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,841 Toma ranked higher than ever in 1974. By comparison, there have been 79 years in which the first name Toma has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2007. In general, parents name their babies Toma only once in a blue moon, so, if your name is Toma you can consider yourself truly special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Toma was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Toma continues to be a precious jewel: 24 newborns were named Toma that year, ranking #9,119 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Toma, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a quite popular first letter for given names. Because: 6.3% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for given names are A, J and K.
With four letters, the name Toma is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 6.3% of all first names that begin with an S, this initial letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Toma and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Toma, you can simply say:
Tiger
Orange
Mouse
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Toma
Toma
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
O
M
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
T
O
M
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Toma sounds like this:
