Toshi — unisex name
85 babies named Toshi in U.S. Social Security records since 1915, with the highest year being 1921. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
36% of everyone ever named Toshi was born in this single decade.
13 babies were named Toshi in 1921 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Toshi
The Social Security Administration has registered 85 babies named Toshi between 1915 and 1973, spanning 59 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Toshi currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1973. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Toshi is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 14 additional births since 1922.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Toshi performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 31 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Toshi shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 19 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Toshi in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Toshi 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 85 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.
Toshi at a glance
Last recorded 1973Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Toshi popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1973–1915
- Peak year (1921)
- 13
- Annual births at peak — across 59 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1973.
85 total births across 59 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1921 with 13 births in a single year.
Toshi popularity over time — boys
14 total births recorded since 1922 (Toshi as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Toshi accounts for 14% of total recorded use across both genders.
Toshi by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 31 births that decade — 36% of Toshi's all-time total
Toshi decade highlights
- Peak decade 31 births
- Runner-up 25 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Toshi's strongest decade
31 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 36% of all-time use.
Toshi by state
Where Toshi concentrates geographically — total births since 1915
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 19 | 22.4% |
19 of 85 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 22.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 22.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1915–1973 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.