# Toivo (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/toivo/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 535 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 535 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1915 | 24 | 1,405 |
| 1916 | 39 | 1,041 |
| 1917 | 49 | 918 |
| 1918 | 57 | 886 |
| 1919 | 33 | 1,245 |
| 1920 | 34 | 1,250 |
| 1921 | 39 | 1,158 |
| 1922 | 22 | 1,691 |
| 1923 | 23 | 1,640 |
| 1924 | 13 | 2,458 |
| 1925 | 11 | 2,738 |
| 1926 | 16 | 2,066 |
| 1928 | 12 | 2,514 |
| 1929 | 6 | 3,920 |
| 1930 | 5 | 4,500 |

## People named Toivo

- 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)
- Toivo Antikainen, Finnish politician (1898–1941)
- Toivo Suursoo, Estonian ice hockey player (born 1975)
- Toivo Kärki, Finnish composer (1915–1992)
- Toivo Särkkä, Finnish film producer and director (1890–1975)
- Toivo Pekkanen, Finnish author (1902–1957)
- Toivo Haapanen, Finnish conductor and music scholar (1889–1950)
- Toivo Jürgenson, Estonian politician and businessperson (born 1957)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.