Toi is a fairly common man's name in Māori and other Polynesian languages. The best known men named Toi are the following from Māori legendary history, who are sometimes confused with one another: * Toi-te-huatahi, about whom there are various traditions. In Te Arawa tradition, a chief who never left Hawaiki. In the Ngati Awa tradition, a descendant of the fantail, the original settler of New Zealand. In the discredited 'orthodox' or "Great Fleet" story, a man from Hawaiki who settled at Whakatane after following his grandson . * , in the discredited Great Fleet story, a man who settled at Whakatāne after following his grandson Whatonga, much later than Toi-te-huatahi I. * Toi-kai-rākau, an ancestor of the Tūhoe tribe. In some traditions, this is an alternative name for Toi-te-huatahi.