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Toinette vs Toivo

American parents have registered 535 Toivos since 1880, against 503 Toinettes. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Toinette against Toivo, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Toinette Toivo

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 59 years in which either name was published, Toinette for 36 years and Toivo for 23 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Toinette Toivo
Total US births 503535
Most in one year 5157
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 4401
Median age today 5497
Peak year 19711918
Best rank 1,754th girls882nd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19201906
Girls / boys 503 / 00 / 535

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 Toivos alive today are over 97; half the Toinettes are over 54. That is 43 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: Toinette and Toivo.