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Tonette

Girls' name

Short form of Antonette

Tonette has been given to 1,505 babies in the U.S. since 1939. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1967, with 73 recorded.

Babies named Tonette, 1999

1 in 527,000

Tonette over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tonette: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Antonette

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tonette means

Tonette is a short form of Antonette.

Origin, language, and formation

Tonette is used in Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Antonette, Anton and Tone.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,505 girls were recorded with the name Tonette between 1939 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 73 in 1967; its best national rank was #1,268 in 1967.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Tonette?

Tonette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1999
1 in 527,000
7 of 3,692,373 births
Among girls only
1 in 253,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1999
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
365,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tonette sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1999 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 365,624 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tonette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tonettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tonette was born before 1967 — so the typical Tonette is around 58 today.

Median birth year
1967
About 58 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
36.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,439
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Choose a decade

1960s — 36.9% of all recorded uses (556).

Is Tonette rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1967 (73)
Years since peak
58
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,268
1967

Spellings of Tonette

Tonette is not the most common spelling — Annette is, with 46.1% against Tonette's 0.41%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tonette is used

Across 1910–2025, Tonette was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 353,268 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tonette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tonette by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,268
1967
Peak year
1967
73 that year
First recorded
1939
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
1,505
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tonette

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

TonnetteCozetteTonietteToniannElietteTonishaRosetteNinetteCosetteBabetteEllietteLinetteTonaTonitaElliotteBobetteTonikaAnetteKoletteMonetteLucetteOlivetteToneshaJonette

Sibling names for Tonette

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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