Toby
Toby is a well-established choice, ranked #89 in 2025. With 600 babies named Toby in 2025, meeting another Toby at school is a real possibility.
About the Name Toby
Toby has seen a notable decline in recent years, dropping 173 places in five years. It was most popular in 2001 at #63 — parents choosing it today are making a deliberately counter-trend decision. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996. It briefly reached the UK top 100, though it typically sits a little further down the charts.
Toby is a very popular name in the UK — yet a class of 28 is small enough that your child will very likely be the only Toby on the register.
⭐ Famous People Named Toby
- Toby Sexton — Toby Sexton is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a scrum-half for the Catalans Dragons in the Super League.
- Old Toby — Old Toby, whose given name was Pikee Queenah ("Swooping Eagle"), was a war chief of the Tuziyammo (Big Lodge) band of Western Shoshone and a Shoshone dog soldier who helped guide the Lewis and Clark Expedition over the Continental Divide in 1805.
- Toby Neugebauer — Toby Randolph Neugebauer is an American billionaire businessman and political donor based in the state of Texas.
Biographical summaries are shortened from Wikipedia and are used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; those summaries remain available under that same licence.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Toby
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Toby
Almost certainly the only Toby in the class
UK Popularity (1996–2025)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
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