girls:
41 births since 1972
#5675 (1st percentile)
boys:
251 births since 1958
#4335 (5th percentile)
overall:
292 births since 1958
#7447 (4th percentile)
The name Tovia is the #7,447 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 292 recorded births since 1958. This represents the 3.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,335 (5.4% percentile) for all time with 251 births since 1958. For girls, it ranks #5,675 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 41 births since 1972.
Tovia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1958 (1958 for boys and 1972 for girls). Birth data for Tovia is available in 36 out of the 66 years between 1958 and 2023 (31 years for boys and 7 years for girls). 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.
The name Tovia has been given predominantly to boys, with 86.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Tovia were boys.
For boys, Tovia reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #880) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Tovia ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 70.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tovia reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #782) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tovia".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Tovia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.8% confident that Tovia is pronounced as TOH-vee-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TOH-vyuh, at 18.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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