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Thomas is a common given name
Given name

A given name is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name ....
 for males. It originated from the Aramaic language
Aramaic language

Aramaic is a Semitic languages with a 3,000-year history. It has been the language of administration of empires and the language of divine worship....
 designation ??? or Tôm. The meaning of the name is "twin
Twin

Twins are two offspring resulting from the same pregnancy, usually childbirth in close succession. They can be the same or different sex. Twins can either be monozygotic or dizygotic ....
," and in the New Testament
New Testament

The New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christianity Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
 the designation was applied to Judas Thomas, the second Judas of the Apostles, hence the meaning "twin".

"Tom
Tom

Tom may refer to:...
" or "Thom" are abbreviations of Thomas, and "Tommy
Tommy

Tommy is a given name that is the English diminutive of Thomas and could refer to:...
" is a common variant; "Tommie" is a relatively uncommon variant. The name is sometimes abbreviated as "Thos" in signatures.






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Thomas is a common given name
Given name

A given name is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name ....
 for males. It originated from the Aramaic language
Aramaic language

Aramaic is a Semitic languages with a 3,000-year history. It has been the language of administration of empires and the language of divine worship....
 designation ??? or Tôm. The meaning of the name is "twin
Twin

Twins are two offspring resulting from the same pregnancy, usually childbirth in close succession. They can be the same or different sex. Twins can either be monozygotic or dizygotic ....
," and in the New Testament
New Testament

The New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christianity Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
 the designation was applied to Judas Thomas, the second Judas of the Apostles, hence the meaning "twin".

"Tom
Tom

Tom may refer to:...
" or "Thom" are abbreviations of Thomas, and "Tommy
Tommy

Tommy is a given name that is the English diminutive of Thomas and could refer to:...
" is a common variant; "Tommie" is a relatively uncommon variant. The name is sometimes abbreviated as "Thos" in signatures. The female
Female

Female is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces mobile ovum . The ova are defined as the larger gametes in a heterogamous reproduction system, while the smaller, usually motile gamete, the spermatozoon, is produced by the male....
 versions of this name are Thomasina
Thomasina

Thomasina or Thomasine is the feminine form of the given name Thomas, which means "twin".Thomasina is often shortened to Tamsin. Tamsin can be used as a name in itself; variants of Tamsin include "Tamsyn", "Tamzin", "Tamsen" and "Tamasin"....
, Tamsin
Tamsin

*Tamsin is a novel by Peter S. Beagle.*Tamsin is also a feminine version of the name Thomas. See Thomasina for more information....
, Tasmina or Tasmino.

See also: Thomas (surname)
Thomas (surname)

English, French, German, Dutch, Danish, and South Indian: from the medieval personal name, of Biblical origin, from Aramaic t?om?a, a byname meaning ?twin?....


Variants

, Touma
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    : Tovmas
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    Belarusian language

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  • Breton
    Breton language

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    Bulgarian language

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    : ???? (Toma)
  • Catalan
    Catalan language

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    : Tomàs
  • Chinese
    Chinese language

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    : ?? (Duoma, Biblical), ??? (Tangmasi, general translation), ??? (Tangmashi)
  • Croatian
    Croatian language

    Croatian language is a South Slavic languages which is used primarily in Croatia, by Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in neighbouring countries where Croats are Indigenous peoples, in Italian region of Molise, and parts of the Croats diaspora....
    : Tomislav, Tomo, Tome
  • Czech
    Czech language

    Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czech people worldwide....
    : Tomáš
  • Danish
    Danish language

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    : Thomas
  • Dutch
    Dutch language

    Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
    : Thomas, Tom, Tomas, Thom, Tommie
  • English
    English language

    English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
    : Thomas, Tom, Thom, Tommy, Thommie, Tomas, Tomm
  • Estonian
    Estonian language

    Estonian is the official language of Estonia, spoken by about 1.1 million people in Estonia and tens of thousands in various ?migr? communities....
    : Toomas
  • Faroese
    Faroese language

    Faroese , often also spelled Faeroese , is a West Nordic or West Scandinavian language spoken by 48,000 people in the Faroe Islands and about 12,000 Faroese people in Denmark....
    : Tummas
  • Finnish
    Finnish language

    Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by Finnish people outside of Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden....
    : Tuomas
  • Filipino
    Filipino language

    The Filipino language is the national language and an official language of the Philippines as designated in the 1987 Philippine Constitution. It is an Austronesian language that is the de facto standard language of Tagalog language....
    : Tomas
  • French
    French language

    French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
    : Thomas
  • German
    German language

    German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
    : Thomas, Tom, Tommi
  • Greek
    Greek language

    Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
    , polytonic: (Thomâs) = monotonic T?µ?? (Thomás) (Saint Thomas also: (Didymos, "twin"))
  • Hebrew
    Hebrew language

    Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
    : Teomo
  • Hungarian
    Hungarian language

    Hungarian is a Uralic languages unrelated to most other languages in Europe. It is mainly spoken in Hungary and by the Hungarian minorities in the seven neighbouring countries....
    : Tamás
  • Icelandic
    Icelandic language

    Icelandic is a North Germanic languages, the language of Iceland. Its closest relative is Faroese language and Norwegian dialects such as Telemark dialect and Sognam?l....
    : Tómas
  • Irish
    Irish language

    Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic languages of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people....
    : Tomás, Tommy
  • Italian
    Italian language

    Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
    : Tommaso     (also sometimes Tomaso)
  • Japanese
    Japanese language

    IPA: [n?iho?go] is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is related to the Ryukyuan languages....
    : ???? (Tomasu)
  • Korean
    Korean language

    Korean is the official language of North Korea and South Korea. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China....
    : ?? (Doma; Toma; biblical), ??? (Tomeoseu; T'omosu)
  • Latin: Thomas (Saint Thomas also: Didymus)
  • Lithuanian
    Lithuanian language

    Lithuanian is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognised as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.96 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 170,000 abroad....
    : Tomas
  • Macedonian
    Macedonian language

    Macedonian is the official language of the Republic of Macedonia and is a part of the Eastern group of South Slavic languages. Macedonian is closely related to and shares a high degree of mutual intelligibility with the Bulgarian language, Serbian language, Bosnian language, and Croatian language languages....
    : ????????, ????, ????, ?????, ????
  • Malayalam
    Malayalam language

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    : ???? (Thoma), ?????? (Thomas), ??????? (Thommen), ?????? (Oommen), ?????? (Thommy), ???? (Tommy), ??? (Tom)
  • Maori
    Maori language

    Maori or te reo Maori, also commonly shortened to te reo , functions as one of the official languages of New Zealand. Linguists classify it within the Eastern Polynesian languages as closely related to Cook Islands Maori, Tuamotuan language and Tahitian language; somewhat less closely to Hawaiian language and Marquesan language; a...
    : Tamihana
  • Maltese
    Maltese language

    Maltese is the national language of Malta, and a co-official Languages of Malta alongside English language,while also serving as an Languages of the European Union European Union, the only Semitic languages so distinguished....
    : Tumas
  • Norwegian
    Norwegian language

    Norwegian is a North Germanic languages language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language. It is also spoken as a second language among Norwegian-Americans in the United States of America, especially in the central northern states....
     : Thomas, Tomas, Tom
  • Polish
    Polish language

    Polish , an official language of Poland, has the largest number of speakers of any West Slavic languages. Polish-speakers use the language in a uniform manner through most of Poland, and it has a regular orthography....
    : Tomasz, Tomek
  • Portuguese
    Portuguese language

    Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago....
    : Thomaz, Tomaz, Tomás, Tomé
  • Persian
    Persian language

    name=Persian|nativename=|pronunciation=[f??r'si]|image=|caption=Farsi in Perso-Arabic script |states= Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Bahrain....
    : Tomasp
  • Romanian
    Romanian language

    Romanian or Daco-Romanian ; self-designation: limba rom?na, ) is a Romance languages spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova....
    : Tomas, Toma (more common)
  • Russian
    Russian language

    Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
    : ????´ (written: Foma, pronounced: Famá)
  • Samoan
    Samoan language

    The Samoan or Samoan language is the traditional language of Samoa and American Samoa and is an official language—alongside English language—in both jurisdictions....
    : Tomasi
  • Scottish Gaelic
    Scottish Gaelic language

    Scottish Gaelic is a member of the Goidelic languages branch of Celtic languages. This branch also includes the Irish language and Manx language languages....
    : Tòmas
  • Scots
    Scots language

    Scots or Lowland Scots refers to the Germanic Variety derived from Middle English spoken in parts of Lowland Scotland, Northern Ireland and the border areas of the Republic of Ireland....
    : Tam
  • Serbian
    Serbian language

    name=Serbian|nativename=|pronunciation=['sr?pski?]|familycolor=Indo-European|map=|states=See below under "Official status", besides that in Croatia and as an immigrant's language spread over Central Europe and Western Europe, as well as Northern America...
    : ???? (Toma)
  • Slovak
    Slovak language

    The Slovak language , sometimes incorrectly called ?Slovakian?, is an Indo-European languages that belongs to the West Slavic languages .The Czech and Slovak languages are Mutual intelligibility which means that even after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia Czech may be used in all official proceedings and documents in Slovakia, and vice ver...
    : Tomáš
  • Slovenian
    Slovenian language

    Slovene or Slovenian is a South Slavic languages spoken by approximately 2.4 million speakers worldwide, the majority of whom live in Slovenia....
    : Tomaž
  • Spanish
    Spanish language

    Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
    : Tomás
  • Swedish
    Swedish language

    Swedish is a North Germanic languages language, spoken by around 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the ?land islands....
    : Tomas, Thomas
  • Thai
    Thai language

    Thai , is the national language and official language language of Thailand and the mother tongue of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group....
    : ????? (To-mus)
  • Ukrainian
    Ukrainian language

    Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic languages of the Slavic languages. It is the official language of Ukraine. In some areas of Russia there are dialects, Balachka or Surzhyk, which are the Ukrainianized versions of the Russian language....
    : Choma
  • Welsh
    Welsh language

    Welsh ]], is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, in England by some along the Welsh Marches and in the Welsh settlement in Argentina in the Chubut Valley in Argentina Patagonia....
    : Tomos