Surname Toma in modern Croatia

Toma families are often Croats and they are mostly from Novi Marof , rarely Hungarians and Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Varazdin and Novi Marof. In Grana in Novi Marof every ninth inhabitant had the family name Toma.

Prevalence

About 170 people with faimily name Toma live in Croatia today, in 60 households. There were 100 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number increased by 70 percent.
They are located in 10 Croatian counties, in 13 cities and 21 other places, mostly in Grana (40), Zagreb (25), Bobota in Vukovar area (15), Novi Marof (10), and in Gornje Makojisce (10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Toma (including: Thoma , Tomah , Tooma , Tohma , Thomma , Tomma , Thomaa , Thooma and Tohmah ) is present in 127 countries worldwide. "Thoma " is used by some 30000 people in Germany , about 10000 in the United States , and some 4000 people in Greece. "Tomma " is used by small number of people in Canada , small number in the United States , and small number of people in Finland , small number of people in Italy. "Tooma " is used by some 200 people in the United States , about 200 in Kiribati , and some 200 people in Syria.

Characteristic first names

Vjekoslav Toma, Krešimir Toma, Danijel Toma, Želimir Toma, Igor Toma, Robert Toma, Dragutin Toma, Vladimir Toma, Matija Toma, Ivan Toma, Vlado Toma, Ljiljana Toma, Mario Toma, Ružica Toma, Tomislav Toma, Ana Toma, Juraj Toma, Dalibor Toma, Nada Toma

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over twenty times, the first time 1749 in source 18th Century Census.

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