Toyin
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Toyin is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is the 87th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- NGNigeria1 in 1.1K◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 161K
- USUnited States1 in 774K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈438 ●
- Sources
- 195 ●
- 1 in 375K ◐
across 3 countries
103K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #87 | 65,611 | 95K rec. | — | — | Toyin | 109 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,284 | 931 rec. | — | — | Toyin | 81 |
| US United States | — | 430 | 5.8K rec. | 1 in 774K | 430 | Toyin | 195 |
| CA Canada | — | 193 | 191 rec. | — | — | Toyin | 33 |
| KE Kenya | — | 186 | 0 rec. | — | — | Toyin | 2 |
| FR France | — | 85 | 93 rec. | — | — | Toyin | 29 |
| AU Australia | — | 80 | 77 rec. | — | 1 | Toyin | 25 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 51 | 50 rec. | — | — | Toyin | 9 |
| IE Ireland | — | 47 | 29 rec. | — | — | Toyin | 16 |
| DE Germany | — | 44 | 37 rec. | — | — | Toyin | 32 |
| MT Malta | #220 | 23 | 187 rec. | — | — | Toyin | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | — | 17 | 17 rec. | — | — | Toyin | 2 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English57K75%
- Swahili8K11%
- Spanish2.8K4%
- Indonesian2.4K3%
- Amharic1.1K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 56,644 | 75% |
| Swahili | 7,956 | 11% |
| Spanish | 2,799 | 4% |
| Indonesian | 2,398 | 3% |
| Amharic | 1,052 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Toyin Falolab. 1953NGNigerian historian (born 1953)
- Toyin Agbetub. 1967GBBritish African activist
- Olamide Toyin Adebayob. 1976NGbadminton player
- Toyin Alausab. 1978NGNigerian actress
- Toyin Ajaob. 1978NGNigerian scholar and Practitioner (born 1978)
- Toyin Abrahamb. 1980NGNigerian actress
- Toyin Lawanib. 1982NGNigerian fashion designer
- Toyin Ojih Odutolab. 1985USNigerian visual artist (born 1985)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 430 | #19,811 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 99 | #19,811 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #31,565 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #30,137 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 7 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #44,197 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 5 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 2 | #592 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1984 | 1 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #89,424 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 12 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Toyin?
- We estimate roughly 438 people bear Toyin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Toyin have the most bearers?
- Toyin is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled toyin.
- How common is Toyin compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Toyin is the 87th most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
- Is Toyin a male or female name?
- Toyin is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Toyin” — the 87th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.