Toney vs Tonita
American parents have registered 6,610 Toneys since 1880, against 1,102 Tonitas. Toney is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Toney Tonita
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
Toney has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 1939, when Toney had 32 and Tonita had 20.
Side by side
| Toney | Tonita | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 6,610 | 1,102 |
| Most in one year | 193 | 50 |
| Babies in 2025 | 6 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 4,300 | 870 |
| Median age today | 57 | 55 |
| Peak year | 1961 | 1965 |
| Best rank | 579th boys | 1,575th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 10,695th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1911 |
| Girls / boys | 194 / 6,416 | 1,102 / 0 |
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 Tonitas are over 55. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Toney Alabama (6.4×), Georgia (5.5×), North Carolina (4.9×)
- Tonita New Mexico (60.7×), North Carolina (20.4×)
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 Tonita.