How to write “Thomas” in Korean
토머스 to-meo-seu
Also written: 토마스
What Korean friends call you
- 토머스야 to-meo-seu-ya — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
- 토머스 씨 to-meo-seu-ssi — polite: someone you just met, or at work
Calling someone, Koreans add 아 after a final consonant and 야 after a vowel.
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Korean spellings of Thomas
- 토머스 260 (86%)
- 토마스 43 (14%)
Korean labels of 303 people named Thomas on Wikidata, October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.
Korean news (Daum, October 2026) writes Thomas Edison 토머스 (sometimes 토마스); Thomas Jefferson 토머스 (sometimes 토마스); Thomas Brodie-Sangster 토머스 (sometimes 토마스).
Well-known people named Thomas, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):
- Thomas Hobbes — 토머스 홉스
- Thomas Paine — 토머스 페인
- Thomas More — 토머스 모어
1,054,179 babies were named Thomas in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 15th most common name.
Block by block
- 토 = ㅌ + ㅗ · 5 strokes
Also in 토: Christopher 크리스토퍼 · Victoria 빅토리아 · Antonio 안토니오
- 머 = ㅁ + ㅓ · 5 strokes
Also in 머: Cameron 캐머런 · Mariah 머라이어 · Summer 서머
- 스 = ㅅ + ㅡ · 3 strokes
Also in 스: Christopher 크리스토퍼 · Nicholas 니콜라스 · James 제임스
토머스 takes 13 strokes in all.
More names: Caleb 케일럽 · Cameron 캐머런 · Alyssa 얼리사 · Angel 엔젤 · Ava 에바
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