Meaning and background
The story behind Tomatoe
Tomatoe has an exact historical-text association in Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer's Twenty Quick Soups. The recipe headed Clear Tomato with Sago uses tomatoe for its stewed ingredient and then uses tomatoes in the following instructions. That directly documents the spelling in a culinary context. It supports a food-inspired reference while stopping short of declaring Tomatoe a traditional personal name or determining whether a modern owner intends a historical spelling.
- Association
- The exact spelling tomatoe occurs in Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer's Twenty Quick Soups, in a recipe headed Clear Tomato with Sago. Source
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About Tomatoe
Recorded as a dog’s name
Tomatoe appears in 2 dog licence records in the 2022 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/təmeɪtoʊ/
US English sound sequence, converted from the CMU dictionary. Stress marks are shown separately.
Stress on the second syllable in the recorded US readings.
Other dictionary readings and notation
/təmeɪtoʊ/ · primary stress on syllable 2T AH0 M EY1 T OW0
/təmɑtoʊ/ · primary stress on syllable 2T AH0 M AA1 T OW0
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Sources and research notes (2)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — all seven available extract years, retrieved 24 October 2026 — Recorded name spellings in NYC licence-period rows, extract years 2016–2018, 2022–2024 and 2026. Evidence selects one stated year per name. Annual snapshots overlap; never sum them as unique dogs. No national popularity, etymology or owner naming-intent claim.
- Carnegie Mellon University / CMU Sphinx maintainers CMU US English Pronouncing Dictionary — US English dictionary readings; not owner-specific or exhaustive multilingual pronunciation
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