The Tomei surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,045 people carried this name — #24,090 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 285,700 people counted. That is down 3% from 1,079 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Tomei surname
A surname from Italian.
Borrowed from Italian Tomei.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Tomei» (Portuguese), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 284 people named Tomei live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 139 people named Tomei.
34 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 16 départements, most often Corsica.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
24 people named Tomei live in Switzerland.
They live in 3 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Ticino.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Tomei.
- Tomassi 659 · U.S. census
- Tomasso 700 · U.S. census
- Tomaszewski 3,579 · U.S. census
- Tomczak 2,566 · U.S. census
- Tomczyk 1,312 · U.S. census
- Tome 2,007 · U.S. census
- Tomi 111 · U.S. census
- Tomic 726 · U.S. census
- Tommasi 279 · U.S. census
- Tommasini 143 · U.S. census
- Tommasino 158 · U.S. census
- Ton 4,667 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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