Toivo
Toivo reached its high-water mark in 1918 at number 882, and has been recorded 535 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1930. About 1 Toivos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 97.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Toivo
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 535
- Estimated living today
- 1
- Median age today
- 97
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 882nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1906
How old the living Toivos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 535 babies given the name since 1906, about 1 are alive — 0 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1928 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Toivos
- Toivo Mikael Kivimäki (1886–1968)Finnish politician
- Toivo Loukola (1902–1984)athletics competitor
- Toivo Kuula (1883–1918)Finnish composer
- Toivo Hyytiäinen (1925–1978)athletics competitor from Finland
- Toivo Salonen (1933–2019)Finnish speed skater
- Toivo Tikkanen (1888–1947)sport shooter
- Toivo Antikainen (1898–1941)Finnish politician
People named Toivo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Toivo is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Toivo is most concentrated in Minnesota (16.0×), Michigan (12.2×), Massachusetts (8.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular boys’ names the year Toivo peaked:
Toivo among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Toivo | 7,304 | 18,739 |
| Finland girls | Toivo | — | 16 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Toivo against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.