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Toyah

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Toyah has been given to 8 babies in the U.S. since 1977. 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 1977, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Toyah, 1977

1 in 397,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Toyah: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Toyah means

Toyah is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Toyah is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8 girls were recorded with the name Toyah between 1977 and 1977. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1977; its best national rank was #7,518 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Toyah?

Toyah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1977, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1977
1 in 397,000
8 of 3,176,294 births
Among girls only
1 in 192,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1977
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
275,206 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Toyah 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 1977 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 275,206 children born in 1977 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Toyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Toyahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Toyah was born before 1977 — so the typical Toyah is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (8).

Is Toyah 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 1977 (8)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#7,518
1977

Spellings of Toyah

Toyah is not the most common spelling — Tonya is, with 44.5% against Toyah'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.

Toyah around the world

Where Toyah 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2015
    #5,730
    in 2015
  • Scotland
    1981–1982
    #530
    in 1982
  • Ireland
    1998–1998
    #498
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1982–1993
    #712
    in 1993

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Toyah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,518
1977
Peak year
1977
8 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
1977
All-time count
8
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Toyah

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

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Sibling names for Toyah

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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