Toa
Toa was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,410 among boys’ names; 167 Americans have been recorded with it since 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Toa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Toa?
#6,410 among boys’ names, 2025
Toa rose from #9,471 in 2015 to #6,410 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 8.2 per million.
14 babies in 2016, the peak
Toa peaked in 2016, when 14 boys were given it, #6,310 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,410 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,704 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,472 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,778 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 12 | #7,047 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,879 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,808 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 12 | #7,054 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,310 | 7.4 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,471 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 11 | #7,505 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,613 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,660 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 10 | #8,069 | 5.2 |
| 2008 | 6 | #12,400 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,789 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,819 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Toa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Toa has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Toa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Toa, and how old are they?
An estimated 166 Americans named Toa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 14. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 321 people named Toa (91 women and girls, 230 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 98 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,710 babies since 1880, Toa is the fourth most given (4.5% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Toa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Toa and names like it
- Compare Toa and ToyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sToa peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Toa since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Toa.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Toa alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.