Toba

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 16 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
16
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Toba by the numbers

Toba was given to 16 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 17 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Toba

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Toba. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • TobyGod is good; a form of Tobias600 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Tovagood or goodness72 in the US (2017)
  • Toratorah; the law or teaching6 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Toya

Names about as common as Toba

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