Given name · also Māori
Toi
“error”·“erroneous cause of action”
Toi is a masculine given name from Māori, ultimately from Samoan. It is used in English, Louisiana Creole, Māori, and Samoan.
Original Hebrewתעי
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Toi means “error” or “erroneous cause of action.”
From biblical name research
Where it comes from
Toi comes from Māori, and ultimately from Samoan.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1944. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Toi appears in 2 Samuel 8:9-10, 1 Chronicles 18:9-10.
- 2 Samuel 8:9-10
- 1 Chronicles 18:9-10
From biblical name research
Toi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,546
- 53 boys · 1,493 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 61 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 61 in 1974. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,546 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Toi’s family of names
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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