Thomas (name)

Thomas is a male first name, however it is also used as a female first name in different variants.

Origin and Meaning of the Name

The name is derived from the Aramaic te'oma ( תאומא ), meaning " twin". He is also in John's Gospel interpreted (Jn 11,16 EU). The name is pre-Christian not used as a proper name. Therefore, the Greek Thomas ( Θωμάς ) is probably a transliteration of the Aramaic word.

Dissemination

The Christian first name goes back to the Apostle Thomas, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. It is widely used since the Middle Ages. The term is still used pejoratively " doubting Thomas " also goes back to the Apostles, because according to this New Testament tradition of the resurrection of Jesus at first doubted, until he was allowed to see the wounds of the Risen Christ (Jn 20.19 to 29 EU).

The popularity of the given name in Germany developed from the forties steadily upward. From the late fifties through the sixties through the entire name was almost continuously at number one on the statistics of the most popular first name. At least since the mid-eighties, however, its frequency is decreased significantly.

Name-day

With the St. Thomas on December 21, many folk customs are linked. The Apostle is celebrated on July 3, since the liturgical reform in 1970.

Holy Days of Remembrance

  • JANUARY 28: Thomas Aquinas, Italian scholastics and Dominicans
  • June 22: Thomas More
  • July 3: Feast of St. Thomas in the Roman Catholic Church
  • October 6th: Feast of St. Thomas in the Orthodox Church
  • December 21: Feast of St. Thomas ( in the calendar before the liturgical reform)
  • DECEMBER 29: Thomas Becket ( 1118-1170 ), English Lord Chancellor and 1162-1170 Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Thomas of Cori (1655-1729), Italian Franciscan priest and; Saint in the Catholic Church

Bearers of the name

First name

  • Thomas ( Perche ) ( ~ 1193-1217 ), Count of Le Perche
  • Thomas I. ( Wroclaw ) ( † 1268 ), Bishop of Breslau
  • Thomas II (Breslau) († 1292 ), Bishop of Breslau
  • Thomas I. ( Saluzzo ) ( 1239-1296 ), Margrave
  • I. Thomas Aquinas († 1251 ), Count of Acerra, Regent of Sicily
  • Thomas II ( Saluzzo ), Margrave
  • Thomas III. ( Saluzzo ), ( Thomas III del Vasto, . 1356-1416; Tomas d' Alderan ), Margrave
  • Thomas I. (Savoy ) ( ~ 1180-1233 ), Count ( 1189-1233 )
  • Thomas II (Savoy ) ( ~ 1200-1259 ), Count ( 1253-1259 )
  • Thomas Absberg (1477-1531), Frankish Raubritter
  • Thomas Otto Achelis (1887-1967), German high school teacher, historian and author
  • Thomas Albeck (* 1956). German football player
  • Thomas Anders ( born 1963 ), German pop singer
  • Thomas d' Angleterre, Anglo-Norman poet (12th century)
  • Thomas Arne (1710-1778), English composer
  • Thomas Artsruni, historians and religious scholars in the kingdom Vaspurakan
  • Thomas Arundel (1353-1414), English Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of York and Canterbury
  • Thomas Bauer ( Arabist ) (* 1961), German Arabist and Islamic scholar
  • Thomas E. Bauer (born 1970 ), German baritone
  • Thomas Baumer ( b. 1960 ), Swiss cultural scientists and entrepreneurs
  • Thomas Becket (1118-1170), English Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Thomas Behm ( * 19 ** ), Austrian mountaineer
  • Thomas Bérard († 1273), Grand Master of the Knights Templar
  • Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989), Austrian writer
  • Thomas Bourchier (1404-1486), Archbishop of Canterbury ( 1454-1486 )
  • Bourgin Thomas (1986-2013), a French motorcycle racer
  • Thomas Brezina ( born 1963 ), Austrian children's author and television presenter
  • Thomas Brussig (* 1964), German writer and screenwriter
  • Thomas Bucheli ( b. 1961 ), Swiss meteorologist and TV presenter
  • Thomas Buehrer ( born 1968 ), Swiss orienteers
  • Thomas Burke ( athlete ) ( 1875-1929 ), American track and field athlete
  • Thomas Cantimpré ( 1201 - ~ 1272 ), theologian, natural scientist and encyclopedist
  • Thomas of Capua (~ 1185 - ~ 1239 ), papal diplomat, Cardinal, 1215-1216 Elect of Naples
  • Thomas of Celano (1190-1260), a Franciscan monk and chronicler
  • Thomas de Choisy, Marquis de Moigneville (1632-1710), governor of the town of Saarlouis
  • Thomas Cook (1808-1892), British tourism pioneer
  • Thomas de Coucy (~ 1073-1130 ), Lord of Coucy, Marle, Vervins, Pinon, La Fere and Boves
  • Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556), Archbishop of Canterbury ( 1533-1556 )
  • Thomas Cromwell (c. 1485-1540 ), English statesman
  • Thomas Darmo (1903? -1969 ), Catholicos - Patriarch of the East Syrian " Church of the East "
  • Thomas De Monaco ( b. 1961 ), Swiss photographer and director
  • Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman ( 1874-1954 ), Governor-General of Australia
  • Thomas Dormandy (1926-2013), British physician and medical historian
  • Thomas Dürr ( Thomas D ) (* 1968), German musician
  • Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American inventor
  • Thomas of Epirus (1288-1318), despot of Epirus
  • Thomas of Erfurt, German linguist
  • Thomas Franke ( singer) (born 20 century), German singer
  • Thomas Franke ( footballer ) (* 1988), German football player
  • Thomas Freudensprung (1965-2011), Austrian actor
  • Thomas Frignano (~ 1305-1381 ), Franciscan Minister General, Patriarch of Grado and Cardinal
  • Thomas Gabriel ( b. 1957 ), German church musician
  • Thomas Gallus (also Thomas of St. Victor or Thomas of Vercelli; 1190-1226 ), French philosopher and scholastic
  • Thomas Geissmann ( b. 1957 ), Swiss primatologist
  • Thomas Gottschalk ( b. 1950 ), German entertainer
  • Thomas Greilinger (* 1981), German ice hockey player
  • Thomas Gäßler (* 1962), German actor
  • Thomas Gesterkamp (* 1957), German social and political scientist, journalist and author
  • Thomas Godoj (* 1978), German rock and pop singer and winner of the fifth season of Germany sucht den Superstar
  • Thomas Haas (born 1978 ), German tennis player
  • Thomas Hansen (1976-2007), Norwegian musician
  • Thomas Harris ( born 1940 ), American writer
  • Thomas Cuthbert Harrison (1906-1981), British Formula 1 racing driver, see Cuth Harrison
  • Thomas Hartmann ( painter) ( born 1950 ), German painter
  • Thomas Hassler (* 1966), German football player
  • Thomas von Heesen (* 1961), German football player and coach
  • Thomas M. Held (born 1972 ), German - Austrian actor
  • Thomas Albin of Helfenburg († 1575), Bishop of Olomouc
  • Helly Thomas (* 1990), Austrian football player
  • Thomas Hermanns ( b. 1963 ), German entertainer
  • Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), English political theorist and philosopher
  • Thomas Höltschl (* 1990), Austrian football player
  • Thomas Holtzmann (1927-2013), German actor
  • Thomas McKenny Hughes (1832-1917), British geologist and paleontologist.
  • Thomas of Ibelin, lord of Ramla and Mirabel
  • Thomas Jonathan Jackson ( Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, 1824-1863 ), General of the Confederate States of America
  • Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd U.S. President
  • Thomas Kahlenberg ( b. 1983 ), Danish football player
  • Thomas Kaminski (* 1992), a Belgian football goalkeeper
  • Thomas Karaoglan (* 1993), German pop singer
  • Thomas à Kempis ( 1380-1471 to ), German monk and spiritual writer
  • Thomas Kläsener (* 1976), German football player
  • Thomas Klestil (1932-2004), Austrian politician, President
  • Thomas Klug ( b. 1966 ), German television presenter and newscaster
  • Thomas Koch (born 1971 ), German actor
  • Thomas Koch ( born 1984 ), German actor
  • Thomas Körner ( cartoonist ) ( b. 1960 ), also known © TOM, German cartoonist
  • Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence ( 1388-1421 ), Prince of the British Royal Family
  • Thomas Langhoff (1938-2012), German theater director and theater manager
  • Thomas Lechner ( born 1985 ), Austrian football player
  • Thomas Francis Little (1925-2008), Australian Archbishop of Melbourne
  • Thomas Lüthi ( born 1986 ), Swiss motorcycle road racer
  • Thomas Mann (1875-1955), German writer
  • Thomas McDonald ( born 1934 ), U.S. American football player
  • Thomas Meinhardt (* 1953), German actor and audio book readers
  • Thomas Meissner (* 1991), German football player
  • Thomas Merton (1915-1968), American Trappist, mystic and author
  • Thomas Metscher (* 1935), German literary scholar and philosopher
  • Thomas Morgenstern ( born 1986 ), Austrian ski jumper and Olympic champion
  • Thomas More (1478-1535), English humanist, Holy
  • Thomas Müller ( * 1989), German football player
  • Thomas Müntzer (1489-1525), German theologian and revolutionary
  • Thomas Muster (born 1967 ), Austrian tennis player
  • Thomas Natschinski (* 1947), German composer and singer
  • Thomas Nöske (* 1969), German author and cultural critic
  • Thomas von Neumarkt OPraem (also: Thomas of Sarepta; 1297-1378 ), Titular Bishop of Sareptensis and Auxiliary Bishop of Breslau
  • Thomas Newman ( born 1955 ), American composer of film music
  • Thomas Nobis ( born 1943 ), U.S. American football player
  • Thomas Percy (1728-1811), English poet and Anglican Bishop
  • Thomas Robinson ( ~ 1560-1609? ), English lutenist and composer
  • Thomas Rohloff (* 1961), German actor
  • Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset ( 1536-1608 ), English statesman, dramatist and poet
  • Thomas Schaaf (* 1961), German football coach and former football player
  • Thomas Schrammel (* 1987), Austrian football player
  • Thomas Sehl, known as Schorsch Kamerun (* 1963), German singer, writer, director and club operators
  • Thomas Sivertsson (born 1965 ), Swedish handball player and handball coach
  • Thomas the Slav († 823 ), from 821 until his death Byzantine Gegenkaiser
  • Thomas Spahn (* 1957), German television presenter and journalist
  • Stipsits Thomas ( b. 1983 ), Austrian cabaret artist and actor
  • Thomas Štítné (~ 1331 - ~ 1401 ), Bohemian philosopher
  • Thomas Vanek ( born 1984 ), Austrian ice hockey player who successfully plays in the NHL
  • Thomas von Villach (~ 1435 - ~ 1529), Austrian painter
  • Thomas Voeckler ( born 1979 ), French cyclist
  • Thomas Wayne (1940-1971), American rockabilly and pop singer
  • Thomas Wickede (1470-1527), Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
  • Thomas Wickede (1646-1716), Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
  • Thomas Weller ( born 1980 ), German football player
  • Thomas of Woodstock (1355-1397), Duke of Gloucester
  • Thomas Woschitz (* 1968 ), Austrian director

Short form Tom

  • Tom Boonen ( born 1980 ), Belgian cyclist
  • Tom Brady ( b. 1977 ), American football player
  • Tom Clancy (1947-2013), American writer
  • Tom Cruise (born 1962 ), American actor
  • Tom DeLonge ( b. 1975 ), American guitarist and singer
  • Tom Fears (1922-2000), U.S. American football player and coach
  • Tom Felton (* 1987), British actor and singer
  • Tom Finney (1922-2014), English footballer
  • Tom Hanks ( born 1956 ), American actor
  • Tom Hanson (1907-1985), U.S. American football player
  • Tom Hilde (* 1987), Norwegian ski jumper
  • Tom Jones ( born 1940 ), British singer
  • Tom Jones ( writer) ( born 1928 ), American Musical Author
  • Tom Jones ( racing driver ) ( born 1943 ), American racing driver
  • Tom Kaulitz (* 1989), guitarist of the band Tokio Hotel
  • Tom Lysiak ( born 1953 ), Canadian ice hockey player
  • Tom McCamus ( b. 1955 ), Canadian actor
  • Tom Morello (born 1964 ), American guitarist of the band Rage Against the Machine
  • Tom Murphy ( politician ) ( 1924-2007 ), American politician
  • Tom Murphy ( astrophysicist ), American astrophysicist and professor
  • Tom Petty ( born 1950 ), American musician
  • Tom Phillis (1931-1962), Australian motorcycle racer
  • Tom Robbins ( b. 1936 ), American writer
  • Tom Schilling (* 1982 ), German actor
  • Tom Sharpe (1928-2013), British writer
  • Tom Sizemore ( b. 1961 ), American actor
  • Tom spit ( * 1961), German film producer
  • Tom Trybull (* 1993), German football player
  • Tom Waits ( born 1949 ), American musician
  • Tom Weiland (* 1992), German football player

Short form Tommy

  • Tommy Christensen ( born 1961 ), Danish football player
  • Tommy McDonald ( born 1934 ), U.S. American football player

Family name

See Thomas (surname ).

Fictitious names carrier

  • Thomas the Tank Engine

Variants

Male:

  • Foma ( Фома ) russian
  • Tamas ( Tamas - தாமஸ் ) or Toma ( Toma - தோமா ) Tamil
  • Tamas ( თამაზ ) Georgian
  • Hungarian Tamás
  • Teomo Yiddish
  • Thomé french
  • Tom English short form
  • Toma Bulgarian, Serbian
  • Tomas Swedish, Norwegian, Lithuanian
  • Tomáš Czech
  • Tomas Upper Sorbian
  • Tomás Spanish, Portuguese, Irish
  • Tommaso / Tomaso Italian
  • Tomek Polish ( diminutive of Tomasz )
  • Tomi German
  • Tomm English, Norwegian
  • Tommi German
  • Tommy english
  • Thommy english
  • Tomy english
  • Tammes Danish
  • Tömu or Thömu Bern German
  • Tomasz ( Tomek ) Polish
  • Tuomas finnish
  • Tomais gaelic
  • Tuami Moroccan- Arabic
  • Tomislav Croatian
  • トマス( Tomasu ) Japanese
  • 도마 ( Doma ) Korean
  • Tumasch Romansh
  • Theumis südniedersächsisch
  • Dammerl upper bavarian
  • Estonian Toomas
  • Tomassi
  • Tomassoni

Female:

  • Tammy english
  • Thomasine
  • Thomassine
  • Tamsin english, cornish
  • Tamsyn english
  • Tamsen english
  • Tamzen english
  • Thomasina English
  • Thomasena
  • Tamson cornish
  • Tommie english
  • Tommi english
  • Thommy english
  • Thommi english
  • Tamsin english
  • Tomasa spanish
  • Tommasina Italian
  • Tòmag irish
Thomas (surname) Transcription (linguistics) Thomas the Apostle Thomas I, Marquess of Saluzzo Thomas III, Marquess of Saluzzo Thomas, Count of Savoy Thomas, Count of Flanders Tovma Artsruni Thomas Burke (athlete) Thomas, Lord of Coucy Thomas of Frignano Thomas Gabriel (composer) Tommy Haas Thomas Hansen (musician) Thomas Helly Thomas Percy (bishop of Dromore) Thomas Robinson (composer) Tomas Sivertsson Thomas Wayne (singer) Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester Tom Jones (writer) Tom Jones (racing driver) Tom Murphy (U.S. politician) Tom Murphy (physicist) Tom Weilandt Hungarian language Yiddish language Serbian language Tomás (given name) Goidelic languages Moroccan Arabic Korean language
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