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Tonio

Boys' name

Antonian, Antonine, through Antonio

Tonio has been given to 369 babies in the U.S. since 1956. 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 1990, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Tonio, 2024

1 in 478,000

Tonio over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tonio: meaning, origin, and history

Antonian, Antonine, through Antonio

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tonio means

Tonio belongs to the name family reached through Tonio → Antonio. Its meaning is “Antonian, Antonine”.

Origin, language, and formation

Tonio is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Antonio.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 369 boys were recorded with the name Tonio between 1956 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1990; its best national rank was #2,619 in 1990.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tonio?

Tonio had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 246,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tonio 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tonio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tonios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tonio was born before 1991 — so the typical Tonio is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
24.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
369
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (91).

Is Tonio 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 1990 (26)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,619
1990

Spellings of Tonio

Tonio is not the most common spelling — Antonio is, with 46.9% against Tonio's 0.07%.

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.

Tonio around the world

Where Tonio 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.

  • France
    1959–2025
    #3,888
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Tonio by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,619
1990
Peak year
1990
26 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
369
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tonio

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

TonnyTonieTonyaEnnioTongToniTonnieTonatiuhToneyToniaAnthonioKunioNioCanioToneErminioSantonioArsenioEnioHiginioAltonioArcenioAntionioEpifanio

Sibling names for Tonio

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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