Toby

girls:

8.2k births since 1902

#1798 (69th percentile)

boys:

34.4k births since 1882

#610 (87th percentile)

overall:

42.6k births since 1882

#1195 (85th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Toby".

1882 2023 18822023

Key Statistics

Total Births
8,185
Peak Births
170
Peak Year
1941
First Recorded
1902
Peak Percentile
25.9%
Current Percentile
9.7%
Peak Rank
#340
Current Rank
#855
Female statistics
Total Births
34,411
Peak Births
1,191
Peak Year
1975
First Recorded
1882
Peak Percentile
71.9%
Current Percentile
16.7%
Peak Rank
#186
Current Rank
#759
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Toby

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Toby. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 97.7% confident that Toby is pronounced as TOH-bee. The next most likely pronunciation is TOH-BEE, at 2.3% confidence.

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TOH-bee (2 syllables)
Verified
97.7% confidence
T OW1 B IY0
TOH-BEE (2 syllables)
2.3% confidence
T OW1 B IY1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Toby. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Toby, please vote using the thumbs up button.

toh-BEE (2 syllables)
2 names 5.8k births
T OW0 B IY1

Names with this pronunciation:

TOH-bai-uh (3 syllables)
1 name 647 births
T OW1 B AY0 AH0

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like T OW1 B IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.