girls:
194 births since 1915
#5522 (3rd percentile)
boys:
6.4k births since 1880
#1472 (68th percentile)
overall:
6.6k births since 1880
#3322 (57th percentile)
The name Toney is the #3,322 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,598 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 57.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,472 (67.9% percentile) for all time with 6,404 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,522 (3.4% percentile) for all time with 194 births since 1915.
Toney has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1915 for girls). Birth data for Toney is available in 142 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (142 years for boys and 31 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Toney has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Toney reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 25.3% percentile (ranked #498) with 87 births per million. The name was most common in 1888, with 123 births per million (ranked 5.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1992, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Toney ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 4.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Toney reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #684) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Toney".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Toney. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Toney is pronounced as TOH-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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