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Toni vs Toniann

American parents have registered 101,762 Tonis since 1880, against 1,293 Tonianns. Toni is still ahead, with 89 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Toni against Toniann, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Toni Toniann

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

Toni has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1907 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Toni had 101 and Toniann had 6.

Side by side

  Toni Toniann
Total US births 101,7621,293
Most in one year 2,93045
Babies in 2025 89under 5
Estimated living today 87,0001,200
Median age today 5740
Peak year 19601995
Best rank 146th girls2,687th girls
Rank in 2025 2,256thunranked
First recorded 19071943
Girls / boys 100,198 / 1,5641,293 / 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 Tonis alive today are over 57; half the Tonianns are over 40. That is 17 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: Toni and Toniann.