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Toivo

Boys' name

Possibly hope

Toivo has been given to 535 babies in the U.S. since 1906. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 57 recorded.

Babies named Toivo, 1930

1 in 445,000

Toivo 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Toivo: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly hope

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Toivo means

Toivo may mean “hope”, associated with toivo.

Origin, language, and formation

Toivo is used in Estonian and Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Toiviainen.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Toivo is pronounced /ˈtoi̯ʋo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 535 boys were recorded with the name Toivo between 1906 and 1930. Its highest annual count was 57 in 1918; its best national rank was #758 in 1913.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Toivo?

Toivo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1930, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1930
1 in 445,000
5 of 2,223,243 births
Among boys only
1 in 219,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1930
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
308,208 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Toivo 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 1930 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 308,208 children born in 1930 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Toivo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Toivos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Toivo was born before 1918 — so the typical Toivo is around 107 today.

Median birth year
1918
About 107 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
60.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 60.0% of all recorded uses (321).

Is Toivo 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (57)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#758
1913

Spellings of Toivo

Toivo is not the most common spelling — Tito is, with 49.7% against Toivo's 7.9%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Toivo is used

Across 1910–2025, Toivo was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 54,084 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 33,333
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 50,000
  4. 4Wisconsin1 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. Toivo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Toivo around the world

Where Toivo 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.

  • South Australia
    1957–1957
    #427
    in 1957

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Toivo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#758
1913
Peak year
1918
57 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
1930
All-time count
535
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Toivo

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

IvoToivyToiPrimitivo

Sibling names for Toivo

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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