Toussaint — #5668 US boys' name
505 babies named Toussaint in U.S. Social Security records since 1914, with the highest year being 1972. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 60% of names given to boys today.
25% of everyone ever named Toussaint was born in this single decade.
22 babies were named Toussaint in 1972 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Toussaint
The Social Security Administration has registered 505 babies named Toussaint between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Toussaint currently holds the #5668 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1972, when 22 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Toussaint performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 124 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Toussaint shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Toussaint in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Toussaint 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 505 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.
Toussaint at a glance
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Current rank
Active since
Toussaint popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1914
- Peak year (1972)
- 22
- Annual births at peak — across 111 years of records
Currently ranks #5668 among boys.
505 total births across 111 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1972 with 22 births in a single year.
Toussaint by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 124 births that decade — 25% of Toussaint's all-time total
Toussaint decade highlights
- Peak decade 124 births
- Runner-up 70 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Toussaint's strongest decade
124 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 25% of all-time use.
Toussaint by state
Where Toussaint concentrates geographically — total births since 1914
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 6 | 1.2% |
6 of 505 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 1.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile 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, 1914–2024 (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.