Toya
Toya was last recorded in 2018, when 6 babies were given it; 3,992 Americans have been recorded with it between 1932 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,690 Americans named Toya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 45 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Toya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Toya mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Toya is “a diminutive of the female given name Victoria”
/ˈtoʝa/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Toya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,524, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
232 babies in 1976, the peak
Toya peaked in 1976, when 232 babies were given it (227 girls, #674 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | #15,524 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,834 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 7 | #14,079 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,224 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,188 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,159 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,450 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,285 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #10,058 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,756 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 12 | #7,542 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,834 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,635 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,510 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,084 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,731 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,457 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 49 | #2,401 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 53 | #2,180 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 66 | #1,790 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 69 | #1,714 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 83 | #1,490 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 92 | #1,331 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 102 | #1,246 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 92 | #1,356 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 124 | #1,121 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 137 | #1,048 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 122 | #1,119 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 140 | #991 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 187 | #804 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 227 | #674 | 0.15 |
| 1975 | 203 | #727 | 0.14 |
| 1974 | 219 | #679 | 0.15 |
| 1973 | 181 | #756 | 0.12 |
| 1972 | 182 | #766 | 0.12 |
| 1971 | 184 | #790 | 0.11 |
| 1970 | 167 | #825 | 0.10 |
| 1969 | 107 | #1,065 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 106 | #1,012 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 94 | #1,080 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 71 | #1,290 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 73 | #1,260 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 52 | #1,590 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 65 | #1,391 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 50 | #1,604 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 55 | #1,530 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 59 | #1,442 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 46 | #1,614 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,852 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,114 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,711 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,628 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 34 | #1,796 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,231 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,789 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,699 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,404 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,592 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,976 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,902 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,712 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,871 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Toya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Toya has been given almost only to girls: 23 boys in 62 years of records.
Girls and boys named Toya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Toya, and how old are they?
3,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 3,992 Americans ever recorded as Toya. The median Toya alive today is 51 years old; half are between 45 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 3,998 people named Toya (3,904 women and girls, 94 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,773 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 444 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,260 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 902 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 73 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Toya born?
The states with the most babies named Toya are Illinois, Michigan and New York, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 404 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Michigan | 279 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New York | 234 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 218 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 217 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Tennessee | 208 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Texas | 157 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 132 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 84 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 77 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Toya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Toya is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1932 it was given 2.4 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 girls’ 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 Toya 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 6,709 babies since 1880, Toya is the most given (60% 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 Toya
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 Toya and names like it
- Compare Toya and ToiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sToya peaked in 1976.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Toya since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Toya: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Toya.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Toya alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.