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Czech surnames

Tůma: what the name means

Tůma: from the first name Tomáš (Thomas).

In January 2017, 9,593 people in Czechia were named Tůma or Tůmová (the women’s form).

Where the name was most common in 2017

Areas are the Interior Ministry’s; numbers under 5 are not shown.

In America the name was often written without the Czech accents, so family papers may say Tuma.

To find the family in the old parish books, you need the village they came from.

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Questions

What does the surname Tůma mean?

Tůma: from the first name Tomáš (Thomas).

How many people are called Tůma in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 9,593 people in Czechia were named Tůma or Tůmová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Tůma most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (1,668), České Budějovice (349), Jihlava (234).

Sources

  1. Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic: surname counts by area, January 2017 (archived; the ministry no longer publishes them)