Toy — boys' name

What the Data Says About Toy

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,152 babies named Toy between 1883 and 2001, spanning 119 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Toy currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2001. The name reached its historical peak in 1919, when 37 babies received it in a single year. Toy is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 967 additional births since 1895.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Toy performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 233 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Toy shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in South Carolina, which accounts for 43 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Mississippi and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Toy in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Toy 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 1,152 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.