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Tosha

#13,080 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tosha has been given to 6,727 babies in the U.S. since 1958. In 2025 it ranked #13,080 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 324 recorded.

Babies named Tosha, 2025

1 in 474,000

Tosha over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tosha: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tosha means

Tosha is a given name.

The naming story behind Tosha

Wikidata records Tosha as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q98777301, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,727 girls were recorded with the name Tosha between 1958 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 324 in 1980; its best national rank was #556 in 1977.

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 Tosha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,080
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tosha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tosha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Toshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tosha was born before 1981 — so the typical Tosha is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
41.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
6,727
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 41.6% of all recorded uses (2,797).

Is Tosha 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
2.2%
Peak was 1980 (324)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#556
1977

Spellings of Tosha

Tosha is not the most common spelling — Rosa is, with 25.7% against Tosha's 0.98%.

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 Tosha is used

Across 1910–2025, Tosha was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 27,626 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Tennessee1 in 9,091
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 11,111
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 12,500
  4. 4Georgia1 in 16,667
  5. 5Indiana1 in 16,667
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 16,667
  7. 7Missouri1 in 16,667
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Tosha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tosha around the world

Where Tosha 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.

  • Canada
    1992–1998
    #2,528
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1976–1994
    #716
    in 1994

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Tosha

People whose public names include Tosha, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tosha in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Tosha. Linked forms have their own page here.

Tasha

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Tosha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,080
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#556
1977
Peak year
1980
324 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,727
Count in 2025
7

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Sibling names for Tosha

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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