Toshi
Toshi was last recorded in 1973, when 9 babies were given it; 99 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Toshi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Toshi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,049, in 1973; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1921, the peak
Toshi peaked in 1921, when 13 girls were given it, #2,753 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 9 | #6,049 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,587 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,329 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,619 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,733 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,912 | 6 | #4,153 |
| 1922 | under 5 | 8 | #3,507 | |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,753 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,484 | under 5 | |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,518 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | 6 | #4,542 | under 5 | |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,884 | under 5 | |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,403 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Toshi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 99 Americans recorded as Toshi, 86% are girls and 14% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Toshi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Toshi, and how old are they?
An estimated 32 Americans named Toshi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 390 people named Toshi (215 women and girls, 175 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 34 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Toshi rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 8,397 babies since 1880, Toshi is the fifth most given (1.2% 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.
More about Toshi and names like it
- Compare Toshi and ToshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sToshi peaked in 1921.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Toshi since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Toshi.
- Names starting with TMost given first.