Toya

Where Toya comes from

Toya 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. 1932
    First appearance
    #3,568 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1976
    Peak, #672
    227 babies named Toya — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1980
    Toya Alexis born
    Canadian reality TV participant
  4. 1982
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,345.
  5. 1984
    Toya Montoya born
    Colombian television presenter
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Toya Montoya · Colombian television presenter, born 1984
  • Toya Alexis · Canadian reality TV participant, born 1980
  • Toya Maissen · Swiss journalist, 1939–1991

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.