Toby
Toby is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 194 births. Its best rank was 190th, in 1975.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1940.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19751,191 births
- Best rank
- #190in 1975
- Since 1882
- 42,891people given the name
The story in the numbers
34,607 boys have been named Toby in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1975, with 1,191 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1978, and the 1970s alone account for 29%. It has spent 87 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Toby is used for both sexes: 19% of its bearers are girls (8,284), most of them born around 1941.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Toby | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10 | |
| 1890s | 6 | |
| 1900s | 32 | |
| 1910s | 163 | |
| 1920s | 253 | |
| 1930s | 501 | |
| 1940s | 1,240 | |
| 1950s | 2,124 | |
| 1960s | 4,359 | |
| 1970s | 9,885 | |
| 1980s | 3,760 | |
| 1990s | 3,127 | |
| 2000s | 4,852 | |
| 2010s | 3,402 | |
| 2020s | 893 |
In 1975, its biggest year
Toby was the 190th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1975 were Michael, Jason, Christopher, James and David. See all of 1975.
Names that rose and fell with Toby
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Damonpeak 1976
- Lamontpeak 1972
- Jobypeak 1977
- Demetriospeak 1974
- Marlonpeak 1972
- Torrancepeak 1973
- Rodrickpeak 1977
- Torrencepeak 1973
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.