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Toshio

Boys' name

Talented, handsome or quick, clever, sharp

Toshio has been given to 737 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1921, with 66 recorded.

Babies named Toshio, 2001

1 in 748,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Toshio: meaning, origin, and history

Talented, handsome or quick, clever, sharp

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Toshio means

Toshio means “talented, handsome or quick, clever, sharp”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Toshio is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /to̞.ɕi.o̞/ for Toshio.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 737 boys were recorded with the name Toshio between 1912 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 66 in 1921; its best national rank was #855 in 1921.

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 Toshio?

Toshio had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 748,000
5 of 3,742,181 births
Among boys only
1 in 388,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,778 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Toshio 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 2001 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 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Toshio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Toshios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Toshio was born before 1923 — so the typical Toshio is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
55.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.68%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1920s — 55.9% of all recorded uses (412).

Is Toshio 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 1921 (66)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#855
1921

Spellings of Toshio

Toshio is not the most common spelling — Yoshio is, with 47.6% against Toshio's 29.9%.

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 Toshio is used

Across 1910–2025, Toshio was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 1,667 boys, against 1 in 37,693 across all states with data. It was least common in Colorado (1 in —).

060 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 1,667
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Washington1 in 100,000
  4. 4Colorado1 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. Toshio has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Toshio 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
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Best rank ever
#855
1921
Peak year
1921
66 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
737
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Toshio

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

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Sibling names for Toshio

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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