How popular is “Toby” in the USA?

Number of people named “Toby” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Toby” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Toby” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Toby” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Toby” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Toby” by birth year

This chart shows how “Toby” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1882	5	0.00002257		5	-100%
1885	5	0.000020759		5	-100%
1895	6	0.000017093		6	-100%
1900	5	0.000011105		5	-100%
1902	5	0.000012929	5		100%
1903	7	0.000018363	7		100%
1905	8	0.000018871		8	-100%
1906	5	0.00001167		5	-100%
1907	12	0.000025785	6	6	0%
1908	11	0.000022511	11		100%
1909	16	0.000031297	8	8	0%
1910	22	0.000037243	16	6	45%
1911	20	0.000031043	13	7	30%
1912	14	0.000014169	14		100%
1913	35	0.00003078	24	11	37%
1914	33	0.000023299	19	14	15%
1915	67	0.000036564	40	27	19%
1916	68	0.000035153	46	22	35%
1917	60	0.000029899	38	22	27%
1918	63	0.000029017	39	24	24%
1919	75	0.000035541	45	30	20%
1920	59	0.000026076	37	22	25%
1921	82	0.000035125	59	23	44%
1922	63	0.000027521	39	24	24%
1923	64	0.000027796	36	28	13%
1924	82	0.00003443	59	23	44%
1925	66	0.000028286	39	27	18%
1926	60	0.000026133	39	21	30%
1927	58	0.000025007	25	33	-14%
1928	66	0.000029191	41	25	24%
1929	62	0.000028283	35	27	13%
1930	72	0.000032384	42	30	17%
1931	65	0.000030888	35	30	8%
1932	80	0.000037892	36	44	-10%
1933	94	0.000047013	58	36	23%
1934	155	0.000074633	101	54	30%
1935	151	0.000072252	94	57	25%
1936	211	0.000101561	152	59	44%
1937	184	0.000086358	118	66	28%
1938	210	0.000094912	157	53	50%
1939	226	0.000102567	154	72	36%
1940	224	0.000097278	147	77	31%
1941	261	0.000107124	170	91	30%
1942	277	0.000101398	156	121	13%
1943	276	0.000097784	160	116	16%
1944	270	0.000100369	117	153	-13%
1945	256	0.000096498	133	123	4%
1946	242	0.000075736	116	126	-4%
1947	275	0.00007634	127	148	-8%
1948	253	0.00007328	117	136	-8%
1949	266	0.000076332	117	149	-12%
1950	258	0.000073644	110	148	-15%
1951	252	0.000068409	109	143	-13%
1952	299	0.000078726	108	191	-28%
1953	264	0.000068507	84	180	-36%
1954	277	0.000069586	93	184	-33%
1955	290	0.000072228	100	190	-31%
1956	352	0.000085374	108	244	-39%
1957	339	0.000080673	89	250	-47%
1958	382	0.000092407	83	299	-57%
1959	368	0.000088504	73	295	-60%
1960	456	0.000109779	82	374	-64%
1961	375	0.000090529	74	301	-61%
1962	445	0.000110275	85	360	-62%
1963	480	0.000121267	90	390	-63%
1964	439	0.000112923	64	375	-71%
1965	547	0.000150878	74	473	-73%
1966	405	0.000116525	55	350	-73%
1967	494	0.000145513	67	427	-73%
1968	609	0.000180262	54	555	-82%
1969	833	0.00023969	79	754	-81%
1970	1083	0.00030029	100	983	-82%
1971	1107	0.000322519	76	1031	-86%
1972	988	0.00031435	98	890	-80%
1973	1103	0.000365609	98	1005	-82%
1974	1197	0.00039375	117	1080	-80%
1975	1349	0.000446778	158	1191	-77%
1976	1211	0.000399104	117	1094	-81%
1977	1151	0.000362349	93	1058	-84%
1978	940	0.000296168	54	886	-89%
1979	722	0.000217012	55	667	-85%
1980	701	0.000203512	53	648	-85%
1981	496	0.000143379	39	457	-84%
1982	510	0.000145384	43	467	-83%
1983	424	0.000122425	39	385	-82%
1984	397	0.000113794	53	344	-73%
1985	379	0.000106189	57	322	-70%
1986	330	0.000092773	26	304	-84%
1987	340	0.000094297	46	294	-73%
1988	321	0.000086873	45	276	-72%
1989	309	0.000080376	46	263	-70%
1990	337	0.000085263	28	309	-83%
1991	289	0.000074193	32	257	-78%
1992	326	0.000084868	37	289	-77%
1993	318	0.000084344	34	284	-79%
1994	345	0.0000928	37	308	-79%
1995	361	0.000098576	45	316	-75%
1996	380	0.00010419	37	343	-81%
1997	387	0.000106737	41	346	-79%
1998	379	0.000103039	37	342	-80%
1999	371	0.000100437	38	333	-80%
2000	460	0.000121696	51	409	-78%
2001	484	0.000129295	71	413	-71%
2002	544	0.000145521	42	502	-85%
2003	646	0.000169896	64	582	-80%
2004	677	0.000177182	65	612	-81%
2005	595	0.000154753	67	528	-77%
2006	569	0.000143825	62	507	-78%
2007	513	0.000128324	51	462	-80%
2008	494	0.000125678	53	441	-79%
2009	452	0.000118319	56	396	-75%
2010	409	0.000110668	50	359	-76%
2011	352	0.000096233	61	291	-65%
2012	451	0.000123313	98	353	-57%
2013	557	0.000152784	71	486	-75%
2014	521	0.000140569	75	446	-71%
2015	451	0.000121862	80	371	-65%
2016	395	0.000107668	79	316	-60%
2017	364	0.000101784	80	284	-56%
2018	338	0.000096135	67	271	-60%
2019	301	0.00008672	76	225	-50%
2020	263	0.000078729	91	172	-31%
2021	281	0.000082941	89	192	-37%
2022	259	0.000076556	82	177	-37%
2023	256	0.000077313	98	158	-23%
2024	292	0.000087727	98	194	-33%

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