girls:
6.7k births since 1958
#2005 (65th percentile)
overall:
6.7k births since 1958
#3278 (58th percentile)
The name Tosha is the #3,278 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,720 recorded births since 1958. This represents the 57.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,005 (64.9% percentile) for all time with 6,720 births since 1958.
Tosha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1958 (first recorded for girls in 1958). Birth data for Tosha is available in 52 out of the 59 years between 1958 and 2016. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Tosha reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 38.1% percentile (ranked #486) with 182 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 192 births per million (ranked 37.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tosha".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Tosha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 77.8% confident that Tosha is pronounced as TOH-shuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TAH-shuh, at 13.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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