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Tonie

UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tonie has been given to 3,256 babies in the U.S. since 1886. 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 1960, with 81 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% girls, 11% boys all-time.

Babies named Tonie, 2023

1 in 368,000

Tonie over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Tonie over time

In 2023, Tonie went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

18862023

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Tonie: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tonie means

Tonie is a given name.

The naming story behind Tonie

Wikidata records Tonie as a unisex given name. The entity identifier is Q21146299, 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, 2,908 girls were recorded with the name Tonie between 1886 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 81 in 1960; its best national rank was #1,217 in 1957.

In the United States, 348 boys were recorded with the name Tonie between 1915 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1969; its best national rank was #2,260 in 1965.

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 Tonie?

Tonie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 178,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
255,294 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tonie 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 2023 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 255,294 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tonie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tonies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tonie was born before 1963 — so the typical Tonie is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
21.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,305
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 21.8% of all recorded uses (634).

Is Tonie 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1960 (81)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,217
1957

Spellings of Tonie

Tonie is not the most common spelling — Annie is, with 18.7% against Tonie's 0.15%.

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 Tonie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Tonie was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 149,295 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 25,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 100,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in —
  8. 8Florida1 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. Tonie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Tonie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Tonie was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,576,493 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

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. Tonie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tonie around the world

Where Tonie 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2001
    #3,998
    in 2001
  • France
    1997–2025
    #3,628
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1955–1989
    #692
    in 1989

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Tonie

People whose public names include Tonie, 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.

Tonie in other languages

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

TonyTonje

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

Tonie 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
#1,217
1957
Peak year
1960
81 that year
First recorded
1886
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
2,908
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,260
1965
Peak year
1969
15 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
348
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tonie

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

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Names with a curve like Tonie

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

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Sibling names for Tonie

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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