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Toney vs Tonia

American parents have registered 22,247 Tonias since 1880, against 6,610 Toneys. But in 2025 it was Toney that was commoner, 6 babies to 5.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Toney against Tonia, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Toney Tonia

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 144 years in which either name was published, Toney for 81 years and Tonia for 63 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Toney Tonia
Total US births 6,61022,247
Most in one year 1931,431
Babies in 2025 65
Estimated living today 4,30020,000
Median age today 5754
Peak year 19611970
Best rank 579th boys219th girls
Rank in 2025 10,695th14,942nd
First recorded 18801917
Girls / boys 194 / 6,41622,194 / 53

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Toneys alive today are over 57; half the Tonias are over 54. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Toney and Tonia.