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Toa

#6,410 in 2025Boys' name

Warrior

Toa has been given to 167 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #6,410 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Toa, 2025

1 in 237,000

Toa over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Toa: meaning, origin, and history

Warrior

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Toa means

Toa means “warrior”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 167 boys were recorded with the name Toa between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2016; its best national rank was #6,310 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,879 in 2020 to #6,410 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,471 in 2015 to #6,410 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Toa?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,410
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Toa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Toa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Toas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Toa was born before 2017 — so the typical Toa is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
167
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.3% of all recorded uses (79).

Is Toa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,294
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,469
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,061
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.75×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2016 (14)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,310
2016

Where Toa is used

Across 1910–2025, Toa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Toa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Toa around the world

Where Toa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2015–2021
    #5,890
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1987–1991
    #481
    in 1991

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Toa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,410
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,469
Best rank ever
#6,310
2016
Peak year
2016
14 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
167
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Toa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Toa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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