How common is the surname Toy?

5,784 people in the United States had the surname Toy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 53,379 Americans. It ranked 5,951st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Toy?

In the 2010 Census, 60% of people named Toy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 27% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Who is the most famous person named Toy?

Camden Toy, American actor and film editor.(1955-2023), followed by Crawford Howell Toy.

Where is the surname Toy most common?

Wikidata records people named Toy in the United States and Australia.

Is the surname Toy getting more or less common?

More common. 5,730 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,784 in 2010, up 0.9%.

The surname Toy

A surname, carried by 5,784 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex T000

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Toy is more common than 96.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,784 people named Toy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 53,379 Americans. That is up 0.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,730.

#5,951

rank among US surnames

5,784

people in 2010

2.0

per 100,000 Americans

+0.9%

change since 2000 (was #5,567)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#5,947	McGriff	5,789	53,333
#5,948	Tyrrell	5,788	53,342
#5,949	Sandifer	5,786	53,361
#5,951	Meagher	5,784	53,379

Who is named Toy

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

60% of people named Toy identified as white (not Hispanic), 27% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 6.6% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 60%
Asian and Pacific Islander 27%
Black (not Hispanic) 6.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.5%
Two or more races 2.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Toys

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Camden Toy
American actor and film editor.(1955-2023)
Crawford Howell Toy
American biblical and Hebrew scholar (1836–1919)
Carole Toy
Australian archer, 1948–2014

Notable Toys come mostly from the United States (2) and Australia (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Toy

Toy has the Soundex code T000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code T000.

Questions

How common is the surname Toy?: 5,784 people in the United States had the surname Toy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 53,379 Americans. It ranked 5,951st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Toy?: In the 2010 Census, 60% of people named Toy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 27% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Who is the most famous person named Toy?: Camden Toy, American actor and film editor.(1955-2023), followed by Crawford Howell Toy.
Where is the surname Toy most common?: Wikidata records people named Toy in the United States and Australia.
Is the surname Toy getting more or less common?: More common. 5,730 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,784 in 2010, up 0.9%.