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Tonny

Tonny reached its high-water mark in 1964 at number 1,655, and has been recorded 902 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 10,695th. About 770 Tonnys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 40.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Tonny

By the numbers

Total US births
902
Estimated living today
770
Median age today
40
Peak year
1964
Best rank
1,655th
Rank in 2025
10,695th
First recorded
1925

How old the living Tonnys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 902 babies given the name since 1925, about 770 are alive — 86 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1985 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Tonnys

People named Tonny with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Tonny is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Tonny is most concentrated in California (5.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1964

The most popular boys’ names the year Tonny peaked:

All the names of 1964

Tonny elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Tonny 455 1,966th
Norway boys Tonny 274 253rd
England and Wales boys Tonny 6 4,702nd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Tonny among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
the Netherlands boys Tonny 1,103 1,452
the Netherlands girls Tonny 429 777
Finland boys Tonny 12 14

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Related names

Tonny against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.