The story
- Japanese · borrowed from桐耶“door valley”
- Spanish · derived fromToya
- English todayToya
Two main origins: * Amerindian surname typical of the Jemez Pueblo people of New Mexico, possibly from Spanish Toya. * Borrowed from Japanese 桐耶 (Tōya, “door valley”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.