Toy
Toy was last recorded in 2001, when 5 babies were given it; 2,119 Americans have been recorded with it between 1883 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Toy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Toy mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Toy is “a male given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Toy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,160, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
51 babies in 1919, the peak
Toy peaked in 1919, when 51 babies were given it (37 boys, #1,157 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | under 5 | 5 | #12,160 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 7 | #8,035 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 6 | #8,709 | |
| 1991 | 6 | #13,035 | 6 | #8,157 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,859 | 7 | #7,110 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 7 | #6,862 | |
| 1988 | 11 | #7,084 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,213 | 6 | #6,874 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,478 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,380 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 9 | #7,374 | 8 | #4,930 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,960 | 5 | #7,257 |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,208 | 11 | #3,940 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,378 | 6 | #6,202 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,376 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,668 | 8 | #4,813 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,360 | 8 | #4,531 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,515 | 9 | #4,138 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,600 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 30 | #2,609 | 11 | #3,415 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,549 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,470 | 7 | #4,467 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,453 | 6 | #4,960 |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,728 | 10 | #3,347 |
| 1970 | 15 | #4,027 | 8 | #3,809 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,609 | 7 | #3,916 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,159 | 5 | #4,696 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,201 | 9 | #2,971 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,930 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,476 | 7 | #3,517 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,079 | 7 | #3,580 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,628 | 6 | #4,014 |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,599 | 10 | #2,836 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,592 | 6 | #4,028 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,350 | 11 | #2,673 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,859 | 6 | #3,957 |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,072 | 8 | #3,249 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,679 | 9 | #3,008 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,279 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,085 | 9 | #2,952 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,478 | 9 | #2,930 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,465 | 16 | #2,032 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,362 | 11 | #2,501 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,090 | 13 | #2,237 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,897 | 16 | #1,938 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,990 | 13 | #2,214 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,180 | 9 | #2,770 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,428 | 10 | #2,659 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,965 | 18 | #1,753 |
| 1945 | under 5 | 13 | #2,005 | |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,660 | 17 | #1,728 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,784 | 20 | #1,629 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,418 | 9 | #2,700 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,927 | 20 | #1,584 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,564 | 7 | #3,111 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,890 | 12 | #2,149 |
| 1938 | under 5 | 11 | #2,314 | |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,919 | 17 | #1,745 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,839 | 10 | #2,442 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,833 | 10 | #2,519 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,421 | 21 | #1,548 |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,146 | 18 | #1,700 |
| 1932 | 16 | #2,116 | 21 | #1,581 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,200 | 11 | #2,454 |
| 1930 | 7 | #4,007 | 18 | #1,814 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,573 | 19 | #1,788 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,751 | 15 | #2,153 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,530 | 25 | #1,556 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,535 | 22 | #1,656 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,999 | 20 | #1,796 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,634 | 24 | #1,624 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,657 | 24 | #1,585 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,595 | 20 | #1,821 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,137 | 35 | #1,251 |
| 1920 | 17 | #2,251 | 29 | #1,378 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,497 | 37 | #1,157 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,365 | 25 | #1,492 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,544 | 25 | #1,433 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,484 | 19 | #1,693 |
| 1915 | 16 | #2,041 | 30 | #1,213 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,616 | 21 | #1,339 |
| 1913 | 11 | #2,018 | 15 | #1,432 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,826 | 18 | #1,136 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,176 | 8 | #1,373 |
| 1910 | under 5 | 8 | #1,300 | |
| 1909 | under 5 | 7 | #1,266 | |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,844 | 7 | #1,204 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,364 | 5 | #1,527 |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,403 | 9 | #918 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,681 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,469 | 6 | #1,190 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,773 | 10 | #778 |
| 1902 | 5 | #2,018 | 6 | #1,131 |
| 1901 | under 5 | 9 | #776 | |
| 1900 | under 5 | 6 | #1,291 | |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,817 | 5 | #1,191 |
| 1898 | under 5 | 10 | #739 | |
| 1896 | under 5 | 7 | #975 | |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,793 | 7 | #968 |
| 1894 | under 5 | 7 | #945 | |
| 1890 | under 5 | 5 | #1,150 | |
| 1889 | under 5 | 5 | #1,102 | |
| 1884 | under 5 | 5 | #1,112 | |
| 1883 | under 5 | 6 | #878 |
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 Toy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,119 Americans recorded as Toy, 46% are girls and 54% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Toy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Toy, and how old are they?
An estimated 859 Americans named Toy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (41% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 51 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,182 people named Toy (704 women and girls, 478 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 982 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,710 babies since 1880, Toy is the most given (57% 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Toy
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 Toy and names like it
- Compare Toy and TouBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sToy peaked in 1919.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Toy since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Toy: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Toy.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Toy alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.