Toy

boys’ name · 54%girls’ name · 46%FadedCompare

Toy is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 740th, in 1898.

Rank in 2024: —fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024: 0not in the data
Peak year: 191937 births
Best rank: #740in 1898
Since 1883: 2,119people given the name

Babies named Toy, by year of birthboysgirls

The story in the numbers

1,152 boys have been named Toy in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 37 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 37 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Toy is used for both sexes: 46% of its bearers are girls (967), most of them born around 1975.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Toy
1880s	16
1890s	41
1900s	65
1910s	206
1920s	233
1930s	149
1940s	136
1950s	97
1960s	68
1970s	67
1980s	43
1990s	26
2000s	5

In 1919, its biggest year

Toy was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1919 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1919.

Names that rose and fell with Toy

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.