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Toney vs Tonja

American parents have registered 6,994 Tonjas since 1880, against 6,610 Toneys. But in 2025 it was Toney that was commoner, 6 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Toney against Tonja, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Toney Tonja

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 123 years and Tonja for 21 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Toney Tonja
Total US births 6,6106,994
Most in one year 193512
Babies in 2025 6under 5
Estimated living today 4,3006,300
Median age today 5756
Peak year 19611967
Best rank 579th boys407th girls
Rank in 2025 10,695thunranked
First recorded 18801940
Girls / boys 194 / 6,4166,989 / 5

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.

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 Tonja.