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The name Toby is a diminutive form of Tobias. The table below indicates the number of times the name Toby has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Toby**
Use of the Name Toby for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
27,318	24,862	9,356	4,166	2,496	1,186	607

The table below indicates the number of times the name Toby has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Toby first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1905, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Toby**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1905	991	8
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921			968	59
1922
1923
1924			999	59
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933			893	58
1934	860	54	668	101
1935	828	57	696	93
1936	801	59	526	152
1937	757	66	628	118
1938	859	53	544	157
1939	705	72	536	154
1940	694	76	574	148
1941	630	93	545	169
1942	561	121	599	155
1943	586	118	598	159
1944	495	151	694	117
1945	542	122	640	132
1946	567	128	762	117
1947	560	145	764	127
1948	569	138	788	119
1949	554	147	809	116
1950	551	151	831	111
1951	572	145	866	108
1952	508	188	885	109
1953	530	179
1954	534	185
1955	530	191
1956	488	244	970	109
1957	495	248
1958	453	301
1959	466	293
1960	410	372
1961	465	303
1962	420	361
1963	409	388
1964	416	376
1965	350	472
1966	404	351
1967	363	430
1968	324	551
1969	272	754
1970	242	979
1971	229	1,030
1972	241	890
1973	218	1,001
1974	207	1,076
1975	190	1,191	849	158
1976	202	1,091
1977	208	1,062
1978	238	884
1979	298	667
1980	304	648
1981	378	455
1982	372	466
1983	420	383
1984	451	345
1985	485	320
1986	503	303
1987	526	293
1988	556	274
1989	610	261
1990	577	307
1991	638	257
1992	607	289
1993	619	283
1994	590	306
1995	576	316
1996	549	342
1997	560	343
1998	581	337
1999	586	332
2000	538	403
2001	533	409
2002	476	498
2003	434	579
2004	426	607
Totals:		27,318		2,905

During the last 125 years, parents have used Toby as a boy's name about 90% of the time and less frequently (about 9% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Toby appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 72 times during the last 125 years.

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