Toba
Toba was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,455 among girls’ names; 453 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Toba by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Toba?
#7,455 among girls’ names, 2025
Toba rose from #8,400 in 2015 to #7,455 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.8 to 9.3 per million.
21 babies in 2024, the peak
Toba peaked in 2024, when 21 girls were given it, #5,939 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,455 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,939 | 13.0 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,597 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,599 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,494 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,534 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,992 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,355 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,779 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,205 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,400 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,606 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,939 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,127 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,581 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,736 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,111 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,749 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,501 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,516 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,979 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,626 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,631 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,270 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,777 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,820 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,309 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,610 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,535 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,601 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,486 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,322 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,423 | 3.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,751 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,206 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,957 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,363 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,561 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,795 | 3.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,229 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,322 | 2.7 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,178 | 4.7 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,633 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,654 | 6.1 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,647 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,531 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,903 | 4.7 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,821 | 6.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Toba a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Toba has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Toba: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Toba, and how old are they?
An estimated 419 Americans named Toba and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 505 people named Toba (459 women and girls, 46 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 338 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% above 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).
Where are babies named Toba born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 181 | not ranked | 6.0× |
| New Jersey | 17 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Toba is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Toba is most over-represented in New York: since 1918 it was given 6.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Toba with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,341 babies since 1880, Toba is the third most given (7.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 68 babies (22%), the second most given that year.
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 Toba
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 Toba and names like it
- Compare Toba and TobiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sToba peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Toba since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Toba.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Toba alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.