girls:
100k births since 1907
#368 (94th percentile)
boys:
1.5k births since 1916
#3115 (32nd percentile)
overall:
101.6k births since 1907
#671 (91st percentile)
The name Toni is the #671 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 101,570 recorded births since 1907. This represents the 91.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #368 (93.6% percentile) for all time with 100,027 births since 1907. For boys, it ranks #3,115 (32.0% percentile) for all time with 1,543 births since 1916.
Toni first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1907 (1907 for girls and 1916 for boys). Birth data for Toni is available in 115 out of the 117 years between 1907 and 2023 (115 years for girls and 96 years for boys). 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 Toni has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.5% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 91.0% of babies named Toni were girls.
For girls, Toni reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 81.4% percentile (ranked #144) with 1,393 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 1,393 births per million (ranked 81.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1963, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Toni ranks #851 for girls (10.1% percentile) with 58 births per million, which is 4.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Toni reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 4.6% percentile (ranked #630) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 22 births per million (ranked 4.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Toni ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 25.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Toni".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Toni is pronounced as TOH-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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