Given name & surname

Toyota

Toyota is a surname from Japanese.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Toyota comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese トヨタ (Toyota).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Toyota through the years

Babies since 1880
6
0 boys · 6 girls
Most popular year
1970
6 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
01234198020002025Highest share 19700.0
Toyota in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1970–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1970. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 201 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Toyotaとよた豊田

The ring: spellings.

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Spellings & scripts 2

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

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