Gender-neutral · #977 in 2025
Toby
Toby: popularity and trends since 1880
- Rank
- #977
- Born 2025
- 234
- Peak year
- 1975
Popularity, 1880–2025
per 100,000 boys born
Recent trend
Toby has been falling: its share of boys born has shrunk over the last 10 years. It now stands at 18% of its 1975 peak.
Boy or girl?
Over the last 10 years, 28% of children named Toby were recorded as girls and 72% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.
Sounds good with
Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.