The surname Tomer
A Hebrew surname, carried by 754 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex T560
Origin
Hebrew origin
* As a Jewish surname, from the Yiddish personal name תָּמָר (Tomer), from Hebrew תָּמָר, biblical character. * As an English surname, variant of Toomer.
One of 51 Hebrew surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 754 people named Tomer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 409,477 Americans. That is down 8.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 825.
Who is named Tomer
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
85% of people named Tomer identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 4.8% as Black (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 85%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 5.4%
- Black (not Hispanic) 4.8%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 2.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
- Two or more races 1.1%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Tomer has the Soundex code T560, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T560.
Other Hebrew surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Tomer come from?
- * As a Jewish surname, from the Yiddish personal name תָּמָר (Tomer), from Hebrew תָּמָר, biblical character. * As an English surname, variant of Toomer.
- How common is the surname Tomer?
- 754 people in the United States had the surname Tomer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 409,477 Americans. It ranked 30,863rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Tomer?
- In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Tomer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.4% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
- Is the surname Tomer getting more or less common?
- Less common. 825 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 754 in 2010, down 8.6%.