Tomin families are Croats and they are mostly from the Island of Murter. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born on the Island of Murter and in Valpovo.
Prevalence
About 80 people with faimily name Tomin live in Croatia today, in 30 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 40 percent. They are located in 9 Croatian counties, in 7 cities and 11 other places, mostly in Split (15), Osijek (10), Jezera on the Island of Murter (10), Valpovo (<10), and in Petrijevci in Valpovo area (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over thirty times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.