Toby — #1102 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Toby

The Social Security Administration has registered 34,607 babies named Toby between 1882 and 2024, spanning 143 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Toby currently holds the #1102 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1975, when 1,191 babies received it in a single year. Toby is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 8,284 additional births since 1902.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Toby performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 9,885 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Toby shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 3,422 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Toby in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Toby in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 34,607 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.