Meaning not yet researched.
Toney: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #501 in 1888.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #501 in 1888; #11,855 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Toney in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,855 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1888, at #501.
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Toney: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #501 in 1888 · most boys in one year: 187 (1961).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Toney, making it the 11,855th most common boys’ name of the year, up 363 places from #12,218 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 6 boys named Toney in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #501, reached in 1888. The most boys given the name in a single year was 187, in 1961. For comparison, it was #7,988 in 2015 and #864 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Toney in 144 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 7 babies. In all, 6,610 US babies have been given the name, 2.9% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,466 babies named Toney.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 83 US boys were named Toney; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tony (254,483 babies since 1880), Tonya (120,856 babies since 1880), Toni (101,762 babies since 1880) and Tonia (22,247 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tunney are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tunney (40).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Toney in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 6 | #11,855 |
| 2024 | — | — | 6 | #12,218 |
| 2023 | — | — | 9 | #8,852 |
| 2022 | — | — | 6 | #12,180 |
| 2021 | — | — | 7 | #10,696 |
| 2020 | — | — | 10 | #7,996 |
| 2019 | — | — | 9 | #8,815 |
| 2018 | — | — | 8 | #9,581 |
| 2017 | — | — | 8 | #9,603 |
| 2016 | — | — | 14 | #6,317 |
| 2015 | — | — | 10 | #7,988 |
| 2014 | — | — | 14 | #6,278 |
| 2013 | — | — | 10 | #8,049 |
| 2012 | — | — | 20 | #4,844 |
| 2011 | — | — | 17 | #5,410 |
| 2010 | — | — | 20 | #4,829 |
| 2009 | — | — | 17 | #5,531 |
| 2008 | — | — | 9 | #8,945 |
| 2007 | — | — | 27 | #3,885 |
| 2006 | — | — | 21 | #4,504 |
| 2005 | — | — | 20 | #4,452 |
| 2004 | — | — | 21 | #4,253 |
| 2003 | — | — | 22 | #3,966 |
| 2002 | — | — | 34 | #2,813 |
| 2001 | — | — | 33 | #2,854 |
| 2000 | — | — | 22 | #3,751 |
| 1999 | — | — | 18 | #4,145 |
| 1998 | — | — | 30 | #2,774 |
| 1997 | — | — | 33 | #2,499 |
| 1996 | — | — | 36 | #2,295 |
| 1995 | — | — | 45 | #1,911 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,708 | 43 | #1,970 |
| 1993 | — | — | 34 | #2,288 |
| 1992 | — | — | 57 | #1,567 |
| 1991 | — | — | 56 | #1,556 |
| 1990 | — | — | 48 | #1,699 |
| 1989 | — | — | 66 | #1,361 |
| 1988 | — | — | 53 | #1,465 |
| 1987 | — | — | 45 | #1,586 |
| 1986 | — | — | 49 | #1,437 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,605 | 57 | #1,279 |
| 1984 | — | — | 57 | #1,225 |
| 1983 | — | — | 48 | #1,359 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,439 | 73 | #1,070 |
| 1981 | — | — | 48 | #1,371 |
| 1980 | — | — | 54 | #1,271 |
| 1979 | — | — | 61 | #1,167 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,667 | 46 | #1,370 |
| 1977 | — | — | 47 | #1,334 |
| 1976 | — | — | 53 | #1,189 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,508 | 57 | #1,125 |
| 1974 | — | — | 71 | #976 |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,047 | 63 | #1,022 |
| 1972 | — | — | 94 | #833 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,553 | 72 | #964 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,385 | 114 | #774 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,614 | 114 | #735 |
| 1968 | — | — | 111 | #716 |
| 1967 | — | — | 141 | #633 |
| 1966 | — | — | 148 | #612 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,481 | 133 | #648 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,713 | 138 | #661 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,540 | 155 | #629 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,501 | 159 | #611 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,511 | 187 | #580 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,655 | 139 | #668 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,184 | 172 | #597 |
| 1958 | — | — | 154 | #621 |
| 1957 | — | — | 103 | #742 |
| 1956 | — | — | 105 | #717 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,651 | 128 | #652 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,556 | 93 | #744 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,569 | 86 | #767 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,537 | 67 | #860 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,791 | 81 | #784 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,251 | 64 | #864 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,991 | 66 | #847 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,195 | 59 | #899 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,733 | 66 | #859 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,637 | 72 | #783 |
| 1945 | — | — | 52 | #883 |
| 1944 | — | — | 47 | #947 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,652 | 44 | #1,015 |
| 1942 | — | — | 60 | #850 |
| 1941 | — | — | 50 | #903 |
| 1940 | — | — | 58 | #829 |
| 1939 | — | — | 32 | #1,164 |
| 1938 | — | — | 41 | #1,005 |
| 1937 | — | — | 31 | #1,210 |
| 1936 | — | — | 35 | #1,117 |
| 1935 | — | — | 40 | #1,017 |
| 1934 | — | — | 35 | #1,131 |
| 1933 | — | — | 25 | #1,360 |
| 1932 | 5 | #5,024 | 30 | #1,252 |
| 1931 | — | — | 31 | #1,250 |
| 1930 | — | — | 19 | #1,747 |
| 1929 | — | — | 35 | #1,191 |
| 1928 | — | — | 46 | #1,030 |
| 1927 | — | — | 36 | #1,223 |
| 1926 | — | — | 33 | #1,276 |
| 1925 | — | — | 43 | #1,069 |
| 1924 | — | — | 44 | #1,090 |
| 1923 | — | — | 40 | #1,138 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,396 | 40 | #1,138 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,791 | 43 | #1,084 |
| 1920 | — | — | 44 | #1,070 |
| 1919 | — | — | 50 | #958 |
| 1918 | — | — | 47 | #983 |
| 1917 | — | — | 55 | #863 |
| 1916 | — | — | 33 | #1,155 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,891 | 45 | #939 |
| 1914 | — | — | 40 | #867 |
| 1913 | — | — | 26 | #990 |
| 1912 | — | — | 25 | #913 |
| 1911 | — | — | 9 | #1,286 |
| 1910 | — | — | 10 | #1,113 |
| 1909 | — | — | 20 | #611 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,573 |
| 1907 | — | — | 11 | #860 |
| 1906 | — | — | 7 | #1,104 |
| 1905 | — | — | 12 | #736 |
| 1904 | — | — | 10 | #807 |
| 1903 | — | — | 10 | #777 |
| 1902 | — | — | 8 | #923 |
| 1901 | — | — | 10 | #725 |
| 1900 | — | — | 19 | #574 |
| 1899 | — | — | 7 | #924 |
| 1898 | — | — | 9 | #800 |
| 1897 | — | — | 7 | #936 |
| 1896 | — | — | 7 | #975 |
| 1894 | — | — | 13 | #593 |
| 1893 | — | — | 8 | #831 |
| 1892 | — | — | 7 | #947 |
| 1891 | — | — | 11 | #590 |
| 1890 | — | — | 10 | #664 |
| 1888 | — | — | 16 | #501 |
| 1887 | — | — | 10 | #629 |
| 1886 | — | — | 11 | #598 |
| 1885 | — | — | 9 | #694 |
| 1884 | — | — | 10 | #656 |
| 1883 | — | — | 5 | #1,027 |
| 1882 | — | — | 8 | #748 |
| 1881 | — | — | 6 | #858 |
| 1880 | — | — | 7 | #801 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).