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Tovi

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Form of Tobit

Tovi has been given to 95 babies in the U.S. since 2004. 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 2010, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 55% boys, 45% girls all-time.

Babies named Tovi, 2023

1 in 552,000

Tovi over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Tovi over time

In 2024, Tovi went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

20042024

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Tovi: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Tobit

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tovi means

Tovi is a form of Tobit.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tovi is used in Biblical Hebrew.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Tovi → Tobit. The family’s meaning is “my good”, recorded in English with the source elements tovi.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tobit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 52 boys were recorded with the name Tovi between 2004 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2010; its best national rank was #9,543 in 2014.

In the United States, 43 girls were recorded with the name Tovi between 2019 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2023; its best national rank was #8,943 in 2023.

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 Tovi?

Tovi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tovi 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 2023 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tovi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tovis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tovi was born before 2011 — so the typical Tovi is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
65.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
52
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 65.4% of all recorded uses (34).

Is Tovi 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 2010 (8)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,543
2014

Spellings of Tovi

Tovi is not the most common spelling — Todd is, with 27.1% against Tovi's <0.01%.

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.

Tovi around the world

Where Tovi 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
    1998–1998
    #534
    in 1998

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

Tovi 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
#9,543
2014
Peak year
2010
8 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
52
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,943
2023
Peak year
2023
12 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
43
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tovi

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

DoviKoviToviahOviToviaToviyahTovinNoviJoviTovanJakoviToviasTovaris

Sibling names for Tovi

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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