Tovia
Tovia is given to both girls and boys: 5 girls and 20 boys were given it in 2025 (#17,063 among girls’ names and #5,025 among boys’, #9,054 among all names counting both); 331 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tovia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tovia?
#5,025 among boys’ names, 2025
Tovia rose from #9,474 in 2015 to #5,025 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 11.7 per million.
25 babies in 2025, the peak
Tovia peaked in 2025, when 25 babies were given it (20 boys, #5,025 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 13 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,063 | 20 | #5,025 |
| 2024 | under 5 | 13 | #6,788 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 10 | #8,194 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 11 | #7,710 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 13 | #6,643 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 7 | #10,490 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 9 | #8,811 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 10 | #8,095 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 10 | #8,087 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 7 | #10,621 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 8 | #9,474 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 5 | #13,874 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 13 | #6,563 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 8 | #9,619 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 11 | #7,451 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 5 | #14,058 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 9 | #8,943 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 10 | #8,106 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 8 | #9,496 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 11 | #7,057 | |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,622 | 7 | #9,848 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 6 | #10,760 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 7 | #9,305 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 6 | #10,428 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 8 | #7,815 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 10 | #6,268 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 7 | #8,034 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 7 | #7,728 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 5 | #10,124 | |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,715 | 7 | #7,558 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,768 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #8,045 | |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,821 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,123 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,374 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,568 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 7 | #3,638 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 5 | #4,470 |
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 Tovia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 331 Americans recorded as Tovia, 14% are girls and 86% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tovia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tovia, and how old are they?
An estimated 323 Americans named Tovia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 7 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 369 people named Tovia (131 women and girls, 238 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 248 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Tovia born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 165 | not ranked | 7.8× |
Where Tovia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tovia is most over-represented in New York: since 1958 it was given 7.8 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 boys’ 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 Tovia 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 426 babies since 1880, Tovia is the most given (78% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 25 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Tovia
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 Tovia and names like it
- Compare Tovia and ToviBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sTovia peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tovia since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Tovia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Tovia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.