Toju
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Tbe Lord is uppermost
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/toʄu/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Toju is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 41Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- SESweden1 in 3.4M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Tbe Lord is uppermost.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The African book of names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Toju counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 41K | listed | Toju | 41 |
| IN India | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 7.7M | 14 | Toju | 4 |
| US United States | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 11M | — | Toju | 68 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | — | Toju | 40 |
| CA Canada | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 7.6M | — | Toju | 11 |
| SE Sweden | 3 | 1 in 3.4M | 3 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Toju | 6 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the african-book-names-hodari-2003 register; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Toju is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In sdc, alternative spelling of tóiu (“your, of yours”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Tad, tūliņ, tūlīt
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Toju mean, and where does it come from?
- Tbe Lord is uppermost. Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Toju?
- In Swahili /toʄu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Toju a male or female name?
- Toju is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Toju?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.7 thousand people named Toju in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled toju. After it come India, United States, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Toju?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 3 people named Toju, about 1 in 3.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Toju?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tojuThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Toju”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.