girls:
967 births since 1895
#4749 (17th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1883
#3451 (25th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1883
#5668 (27th percentile)
The name Toy is the #5,668 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,119 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 26.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,451 (24.7% percentile) for all time with 1,152 births since 1883. For girls, it ranks #4,749 (16.9% percentile) for all time with 967 births since 1895.
Toy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for boys and 1895 for girls). Birth data for Toy is available in 104 out of the 119 years between 1883 and 2001 (95 years for boys and 87 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 Toy is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2001, 100.0% of babies named Toy were boys.
For boys, Toy reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 6.0% percentile (ranked #503) with 36 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 78 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2001.
For girls, Toy reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #728) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1906, with 29 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Toy".
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