Toy
Recorded 1883–2001 · United States
Toy was most popular in 1919, when 51 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,877 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,119 people named Toy.
Toy over time
How old is the name Toy?
Toy first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1883, which makes it about 142 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 104 of the 143 years since. It was last recorded in 2001.
How many people are named Toy?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,119 American births named Toy between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 886 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Toy in 2025?
Toy was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Toy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Toy is a unisex name — 45.6% of the 2,119 Americans given it were girls and 54.4% were boys. It changed hands: since 1960 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Toy?
Roughly 886 Americans named Toy are alive today — 42% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 60 years old, and half are between 51 and 73.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org