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Tovia

#5,025 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Form of Tobiah

Tovia has been given to 331 babies in the U.S. since 1958. In 2025 it ranked #5,025 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 20 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 86% boys, 14% girls all-time.

Babies named Tovia, 2025

1 in 166,000

Tovia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Tovia over time

In 2025, Tovia went to 20% girls and 80% boys.

19582025

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.

Tovia: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Tobiah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tovia means

Tovia is a form of Tobiah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Tovia → Tobiah. The family’s meaning is “Yahweh is good”, recorded in English with the source elements Toviyyah.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tobiah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 285 boys were recorded with the name Tovia between 1958 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,638 in 1960.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,490 in 2020 to #5,025 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,474 in 2015 to #5,025 in 2025.

In the United States, 46 girls were recorded with the name Tovia between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1980; its best national rank was #8,123 in 1980.

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 Tovia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,025
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tovia 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tovia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tovias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tovia was born before 2012 — so the typical Tovia is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
285
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (86).

Is Tovia 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
+1,763
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,465
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,449
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (20)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,638
1960

Spellings of Tovia

Tovia is not the most common spelling — Tobias is, with 36.0% against Tovia's 0.35%.

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 Tovia is used

Across 1910–2025, Tovia was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 80,751 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000

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. Tovia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tovia by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,025
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,465
Best rank ever
#3,638
1960
Peak year
2025
20 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
285
Count in 2025
20

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#17,063
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#8,123
1980
Peak year
1980
8 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
46
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Tovia

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

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Sibling names for Tovia

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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