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I like feminine variants of masculine names in general, personally, so in theory, I dig Thoma / Toma. However, the sound and appearance is instantly reminiscent of soma, the miracle drug everyone takes in Brave New World. And that's rather off-putting. :-/ If you were to use it, I'd go with Toma over Thoma, as Thoma looks like a typo for Thomas, but it's not doing it for me. I like how short and vibrant it is, ignoring the associations I've got. And I'm quite impure by many people's standards here, but I don't think the nickname/sometimes-masculine issues should come into it at all. ;-)

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May I add Thomasin to your list of feminine Thomas variants? Al Franken has a daughter by the name, and while I don't know if it's pronounced EEN or IN at the end, I like to think that it's like saying "Thomas-in". I dig it more than Thomasine, though Thomasina's my favourite.

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ETA: After the soma business, I think of Tomah, Wisconsin. I've used the bathroom in their McDonald's uncountable times--it's the lunch/dinner stop on the Greyhound bus when I go home. The first time I heard of Tomah, I thought it was a very romantic sounding name for a place (and perhaps a boy, in the same way Micah might be), but any such illusions were shattered two years ago. ;-)

This message was edited 10/10/2007, 2:21 PM