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Toney

#11,851 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Toney has been given to 6,610 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #11,851 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1961, with 187 recorded.

Babies named Toney, 2025

1 in 553,000

Toney over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Toney: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Toney means

Toney is a given name.

The naming story behind Toney

Wikidata records Toney as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q59835674, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,416 boys were recorded with the name Toney between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 187 in 1961; its best national rank was #501 in 1888.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,991 in 2020 to #11,851 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,983 in 2015 to #11,851 in 2025.

In the United States, 194 girls were recorded with the name Toney between 1915 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1952; its best national rank was #3,536 in 1952.

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.

How common is Toney?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,851
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Toney sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Toney. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Toneys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Toney was born before 1961 — so the typical Toney is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
22.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,506
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (1,425).

Is Toney 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
+362
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,860
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,868
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.2%
Peak was 1961 (187)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#501
1888

Spellings of Toney

Toney is not the most common spelling — Tony is, with 21.8% against Toney's 0.56%.

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 Toney is used

Across 1910–2025, Toney was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 44,671 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 10,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 12,500
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 12,500
  4. 4Mississippi1 in 14,286
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 14,286
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 16,667
  7. 7West Virginia1 in 16,667
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Toney has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Toney around the world

Where Toney ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1955–1955
    #263
    in 1955

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Toney

People whose public names include Toney, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Toney in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Toney. Linked forms have their own page here.

Tony

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Toney by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,851
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,860
Best rank ever
#501
1888
Peak year
1961
187 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,416
Count in 2025
6

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,536
1952
Peak year
1952
11 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1994
All-time count
194
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Toney

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

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Names with a curve like Toney

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Toney, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Toney

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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