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Toi vs Toinette

American parents have registered 1,546 Tois since 1880, against 503 Toinettes. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Toi against Toinette, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Toi Toinette

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

Of the 67 years in which either name was published, Toi for 57 years and Toinette for 10 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Toi Toinette
Total US births 1,546503
Most in one year 6151
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,400440
Median age today 4854
Peak year 19741971
Best rank 1,563rd girls1,754th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19441920
Girls / boys 1,493 / 53503 / 0

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 Toinettes alive today are over 54; half the Tois are over 48. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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