Tomi is the Yoruba short form of names beginning with Tomi- (such as Tomiwa, Tomilola) — typically meaning "is worth more than" or "thanks belongs to." Tomi Adeyemi (born 1993) — Nigerian American novelist; her debut Children of Blood and Bone (Henry Holt 2018) — the first installment in her Legacy of Orïsha trilogy — was the highest-paid YA debut for a Black female author at the time of its sale, with a reported $1.25 million advance. Forbes 30 Under 30 (2019). Founded the Tomi Adeyemi Creative Writing Workshop (online) which has trained 1,000+ underrepresented writers. Tomi-Lola Akoshile — British actress. "Tomi" is also the title of multiple Yoruba songs about gratitude. Tomi Adeyemi's books are credited with bringing Yoruba mythology to a Western YA audience for the first time at scale.
Tomi does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tomi reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.