Toby

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Toby: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Toby: Recorded since 1971, with a gap of 18 years, it reached #41 in 2008, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

6registrars recorded it
152times a registrar ranked it
55years from first to last
#41highest recorded position
27groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Toby's record

Held a top-100 place for 30 years running. Names by top-100 run
England and Wales registered 1,477 births with the name in 2007, its largest count from any one registrar. Names by yearly birth count
Held at least one birth in every 2,000 for 30 years. Names by sustained share
Absent from every published list for 18 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2025

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1997	#3824
1998	#3848
2000	#3247
2002	#2540
2003	#1996
2004	#2802
2005	#2247
2006	#2509
2007	#2627
2008	#5545
2009	#2535
2010	#2843
2011	#3549
2012	#2969
2013	#3536
2014	#4003
2015	#2195
2016	#1920
2017	#2341
2018	#1977
2019	#1703
2020	#2843
2021	#2942
2022	#3533
2023	#1959
2024	#3015
2025	#2138

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 28 of the 55 years from 1971 to 2025.

In 2025: #89 among boys in England and Wales, #329 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 6 national registrars across 6 regions, 1971–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1971
First recorded at #304 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1971 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Highest recorded2002–2023
Highest recorded position: #41 among boys in New Zealand, in 2008 (recorded 2002–2023).
New Zealand · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #2138 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Toby appears in 6 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 30 ranked years and 33,082 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1971.

Toby across 6 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Toby's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#304 (1971)	#173 (2022)	#329 (2025)	28 of 55	447 (1971–2025)	31 (2022)
England and Wales · Boys	#77 (1996)	#42 (2014)	#89 (2025)	30 of 30	33,082 (1996–2025)	1,477 (2007)
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#1703 (2019)	#2138 (2025)	28 of 30	230 (1996–2025)	17 (2019)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#271 (1997)	#90 (2017)	#125 (2024)	26 of 28	470 (1997–2024)	33 (2017)
New Zealand · Boys	#86 (2002)	#41 (2008)	#65 (2023)	22 of 22	1,879 (2002–2023)	118 (2009)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#88 (2003)	#52 (2006)	#93 (2019)	17 of 17	2,311 (2003–2019)	190 (2006)

Toby by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Toby in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3,035	4 of 10	759
2000s	12,096	10 of 10	1,210
2010sbusiest	13,261	10 of 10	1,326
2020s	4,690	6 of 10	782

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 1,326 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2022 and 2023, when recorded births fell by 215, from 893 to 678.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Toby appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1971 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #41 in New Zealand in 2008.

Toby's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	female	#2138	13	High	Verified
2025	England and Wales	male	#89	600	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#3015	8	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#86	621	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1959	14	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#76	678	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#63	893	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2942	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#66	918	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#62	980	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1703	17	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#61	1,104	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1977	14	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#57	1,178	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2341	11	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#47	1,316	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1920	15	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#46	1,400	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2195	12	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#44	1,363	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#42	1,352	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#44	1,431	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#49	1,398	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3549	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#51	1,389	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#54	1,330	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2535	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#57	1,284	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#54	1,382	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2627	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#52	1,477	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2509	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#52	1,388	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2247	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#48	1,374	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#50	1,304	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1996	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#51	1,200	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2540	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#58	1,047	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#63	924	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#75	716	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#77	743	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#77	769	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#78	762	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#77	761	High	Verified
2019	New South Wales, Australia	male	#93	97	Insufficient	Not yet available
2018	New South Wales, Australia	male	#79	113	Insufficient	Not yet available
2017	New South Wales, Australia	male	#72	129	Insufficient	Not yet available
2016	New South Wales, Australia	male	#88	109	Insufficient	Not yet available
2015	New South Wales, Australia	male	#90	107	Insufficient	Not yet available
2014	New South Wales, Australia	male	#82	121	Insufficient	Not yet available
2013	New South Wales, Australia	male	#75	139	Insufficient	Not yet available
2012	New South Wales, Australia	male	#71	147	Insufficient	Not yet available
2011	New South Wales, Australia	male	#62	155	Insufficient	Not yet available
2010	New South Wales, Australia	male	#58	164	Insufficient	Not yet available
2009	New South Wales, Australia	male	#69	155	Insufficient	Not yet available
2008	New South Wales, Australia	male	#58	164	Insufficient	Not yet available
2007	New South Wales, Australia	male	#54	178	Insufficient	Not yet available
2006	New South Wales, Australia	male	#52	190	Insufficient	Not yet available
2005	New South Wales, Australia	male	#68	133	Insufficient	Not yet available
2004	New South Wales, Australia	male	#88	105	Insufficient	Not yet available
2003	New South Wales, Australia	male	#88	105	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New Zealand	male	#65	64	High	Verified
2022	New Zealand	male	#91	52	High	Verified
2021	New Zealand	male	#79	61	High	Verified
2020	New Zealand	male	#75	63	High	Verified
2019	New Zealand	male	#66	73	High	Verified
2018	New Zealand	male	#65	76	High	Verified
2017	New Zealand	male	#58	84	High	Verified
2016	New Zealand	male	#53	95	High	Verified
2015	New Zealand	male	#49	103	High	Verified
2014	New Zealand	male	#45	94	High	Verified
2013	New Zealand	male	#46	102	High	Verified
2012	New Zealand	male	#52	99	High	Verified
2011	New Zealand	male	#55	96	High	Verified
2010	New Zealand	male	#51	99	High	Verified
2009	New Zealand	male	#43	118	High	Verified
2008	New Zealand	male	#41	116	High	Verified
2007	New Zealand	male	#48	110	High	Verified
2006	New Zealand	male	#51	94	High	Verified
2005	New Zealand	male	#74	68	High	Verified
2004	New Zealand	male	#60	90	High	Verified
2003	New Zealand	male	#80	64	High	Verified
2002	New Zealand	male	#86	58	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#125	17	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#145	16	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#109	23	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#129	20	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#128	21	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#138	18	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#114	22	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#90	33	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#118	26	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#133	22	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#132	22	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#126	22	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#142	19	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#161	16	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#132	22	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#121	23	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#144	19	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#143	19	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	male	#124	21	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	male	#124	19	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	male	#133	17	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	male	#180	9	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	male	#157	10	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	male	#181	8	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	male	#272	3	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	male	#271	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#329	12	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#275	15	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#235	19	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#173	31	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#239	20	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#226	21	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#199	27	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#195	29	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#244	21	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#245	20	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#265	18	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#208	28	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#252	21	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#290	16	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#238	22	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#269	18	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#366	10	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#252	18	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#225	20	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#222	17	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#283	9	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#283	9	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#305	7	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#348	5	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#347	4	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	male	#337	4	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	male	#333	3	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	male	#304	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#234	17	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Toby is officially recorded

6 official registrars have recorded Toby, between 1971 and 2025, in 32 of those 55 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1971–2025	28	#173 in 2022
England and Wales	1996–2025	30	#42 in 2014
Northern Ireland	1997–2024	26	#90 in 2017
New Zealand	2002–2023	22	#41 in 2008
New South Wales, Australia	2003–2019	17	#52 in 2006
Scotland	2024	1	#234 in 2024

Its high point came 18 years earlier in New South Wales, Australia (2006) than in Scotland (2024).

No registrar recorded it for 18 years after 1977; it appears again in 1996.

What the record shows

Recorded by 6 registrars between 1971 and 2025, ranked in 32 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #41, first reached in 2008.

It held a top-100 place in 30 years, 30 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 1,477 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 18 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 53 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Tobie · #1183, 30y
Tobin · #414, 30y
Todd · #55, 60y
Tola · #518, 17y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 6 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aaliyah · #41, 30y
Ashton · #41, 33y
Mikayla · #42, 32y
Piper · #42, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Jared · #41, 52y
Andrine · #43, 44y
Billy · #39, 45y
Faye · #43, 49y

Toby was ranked #41 in New Zealand · Boys in 2008. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Toby and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Toby without appearing here.

Toby moved ahead of

Kirsten
In 2018 they stood at #1977 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1703 and #5591.
Ronny
In 2015 they stood at #5545 and #5545 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1920 and #5785.
Jayden
In 2017 they stood at #3536 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1977 and #5666.
Tyler
In 2014 they stood at #4003 and #3160 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2195 and #5730.

Moved ahead of Toby

Meabh
In 2020 they stood at #2843 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2942 and #1286.
Eabha
In 2019 they stood at #1703 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2843 and #1313.
Noah
In 2023 they stood at #1959 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #1743.
Frida
In 2003 they stood at #1996 and #2727 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #2802 and #1836.

Moved the opposite way to Toby

Geoffrey
Between 1971 and 2022 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Toby went from #304 to #173 while Geoffrey went from #123 to #779.
Abigail
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Toby went from #3795 to #2138 while Abigail went from #21 to #171.
Aimee
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Toby went from #3795 to #2138 while Aimee went from #70 to #1809.
Aisling
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Toby went from #3795 to #2138 while Aisling went from #440 to #1892.

Moved the same way as Toby

Ada
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Toby went from #3795 to #2138 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Toby went from #3795 to #2138 and Alma from #2096 to #211.
Alyssa
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Toby went from #3795 to #2138 and Alyssa from #783 to #325.
Amalie
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Toby went from #3795 to #2138 and Amalie from #2096 to #894.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1971 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #41 in New Zealand in 2008. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Toby

Toby at a glance

What stands out in Toby's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Toby across 6 official records

Toby by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Toby appears in

Popularity data

Where Toby is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Toby

Toby and the names beside it

Toby moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Toby

Moved the opposite way to Toby

Moved the same way as Toby

Toby at a glance

What stands out in Toby's record

Toby across 6 official records

Toby by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Toby appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Toby

Toby and the names beside it

Toby moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Toby

Moved the opposite way to Toby

Moved the same way as Toby