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Tocara vs Toccara

American parents have registered 980 Toccaras since 1880, against 68 Tocaras. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tocara against Toccara, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tocara Toccara

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Toccara has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1981 to 2011. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1987, when Tocara had 5 and Toccara had 7.

Side by side

  Tocara Toccara
Total US births 68980
Most in one year 14364
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 70950
Median age today 4143
Peak year 19821982
Best rank 4,945th girls541st girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19821981
Girls / boys 68 / 0966 / 14

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Toccaras alive today are over 43; half the Tocaras are over 41. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Compare something else

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tocara and Toccara.