Toivo

Where Toivo comes from

Toivo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1886
    Toivo Mikael Kivimäki born
    Finnish politician
  2. 1902
    Toivo Loukola born
    athletics competitor
  3. 1906
    First appearance
    #1,004 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1908
    Peak, #744
    13 babies named Toivo — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1927
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Toivo Mikael Kivimäki · Finnish politician, 1886–1968
  • Toivo Loukola · athletics competitor, 1902–1984
  • Toivo Kuula · Finnish composer, 1883–1918
  • Toivo Hyytiäinen · athletics competitor from Finland, 1925–1978
  • Toivo Salonen · Finnish speed skater, 1933–2019

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.