Entry № 10663 · Japanese origin

Tomoe Tomoe — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ toh-MOH-eh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Onna-musha (samurai woman warrior of Genpei War)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Japanese)

A name that means "onna-musha (samurai woman warrior of genpei war)".

Tomoe (巴) is the Japanese word for the comma-shaped magatama swirl. Tomoe Gozen (c. The most famous female samurai in Japanese history.

Onna-musha (samurai woman warrior of Genpei War) — a Japanese name.

The name in its native script.

Transliteration
Tomoe
Pronunciation
/ toʊˈmoʊ.ɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tomoe stands.

Tomoe 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.

Tomoes before her.

Real people
Tomoe Gozen
Onna-musha of the Genpei War.
c. 1157 – 1247
In fiction
Tomoe
The Tale of the Heike.

Names connected to Tomoe.

The number behind Tomoe.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tomoe reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.