Toshua
Toshua was last recorded in 1991, when 11 babies were given it; 184 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Toshua by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Toshua?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,034, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1983, the peak
Toshua peaked in 1983, when 17 babies were given it (11 girls, #6,191 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 6 | #13,034 | 5 | #9,519 |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,135 | 5 | #9,373 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #9,115 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 6 | #7,187 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 12 | #3,936 | |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,712 | 6 | #6,656 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,378 | 5 | #7,501 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,264 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,191 | 6 | #6,161 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,443 | 5 | #7,296 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 7 | #9,044 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,916 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,864 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,098 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,957 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,050 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,917 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,265 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,264 | 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 Toshua a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 184 Americans recorded as Toshua, 70% are girls and 30% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Toshua: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Toshua, and how old are they?
An estimated 175 Americans named Toshua and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 39 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 168 people named Toshua (133 women and girls, 35 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 178 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 8,332 babies since 1880, Toshua is the third most given (2.2% 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 Toshua and names like it
- Compare Toshua and ToshaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sToshua peaked in 1983.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Toshua.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Toshua alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.