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Toni vs Tonna

American parents have registered 101,762 Tonis since 1880, against 799 Tonnas. Toni is still ahead, with 89 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Toni Tonna

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 2004, when Toni had 365 and Tonna had 7.

Side by side

  Toni Tonna
Total US births 101,762799
Most in one year 2,93033
Babies in 2025 89under 5
Estimated living today 87,000700
Median age today 5758
Peak year 19601966
Best rank 146th girls2,022nd girls
Rank in 2025 2,256thunranked
First recorded 19071944
Girls / boys 100,198 / 1,564799 / 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.

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