Tosha
Tosha was given to 7 girls in 2025, #13,080 among girls’ names; 6,727 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,430 Americans named Tosha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 39 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tosha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tosha?
#13,080 among girls’ names, 2025
Tosha entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,080 in 2025.
324 babies in 1980, the peak
Tosha peaked in 1980, when 324 girls were given it, #574 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #13,080 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 6 | #16,083 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 6 | #17,134 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,252 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,091 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,357 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,841 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,690 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,633 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 9 | #11,037 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 12 | #8,706 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,297 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,301 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,822 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,549 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 52 | #2,471 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 65 | #2,095 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 89 | #1,680 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 113 | #1,435 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 144 | #1,213 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 153 | #1,153 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 191 | #977 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 209 | #881 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 242 | #779 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 239 | #753 | 0.14 |
| 1986 | 253 | #709 | 0.15 |
| 1985 | 320 | #600 | 0.19 |
| 1984 | 291 | #615 | 0.17 |
| 1983 | 283 | #617 | 0.17 |
| 1982 | 312 | #586 | 0.18 |
| 1981 | 324 | #569 | 0.19 |
| 1980 | 324 | #574 | 0.20 |
| 1979 | 323 | #568 | 0.20 |
| 1978 | 307 | #566 | 0.20 |
| 1977 | 316 | #556 | 0.21 |
| 1976 | 263 | #604 | 0.18 |
| 1975 | 285 | #582 | 0.20 |
| 1974 | 253 | #618 | 0.17 |
| 1973 | 251 | #615 | 0.17 |
| 1972 | 217 | #682 | 0.14 |
| 1971 | 217 | #706 | 0.13 |
| 1970 | 131 | #970 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 100 | #1,107 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 71 | #1,323 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 62 | #1,414 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 40 | #1,823 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,392 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,981 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,627 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,518 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,859 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,234 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,958 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tosha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tosha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tosha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tosha, and how old are they?
6,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 6,727 Americans ever recorded as Tosha. The median Tosha alive today is 45 years old; half are between 39 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 5,628 people named Tosha (5,614 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,499 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 41 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,980 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,180 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 208 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 13 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Tosha born?
The states with the most babies named Tosha are Texas, Ohio and Tennessee, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 449 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 406 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 364 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| California | 342 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 297 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 254 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 250 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Indiana | 242 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 225 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 206 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Tosha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tosha is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1958 it was given 2.5 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 Tosha 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 8,332 babies since 1880, Tosha is the most given (81% 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 Tosha
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 Tosha and names like it
- Compare Tosha and ToshiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTosha peaked in 1980.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tosha since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Tosha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tosha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.