girls:
2.9k births since 1886
#3218 (44th percentile)
boys:
348 births since 1915
#4238 (8th percentile)
overall:
3.3k births since 1886
#4783 (38th percentile)
The name Tonie is the #4,783 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,256 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 38.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 38.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,218 (43.7% percentile) for all time with 2,908 births since 1886. For boys, it ranks #4,238 (7.5% percentile) for all time with 348 births since 1915.
Tonie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (1886 for girls and 1915 for boys). Birth data for Tonie is available in 104 out of the 138 years between 1886 and 2023 (103 years for girls and 47 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 Tonie has been given predominantly to girls, with 89.3% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Tonie were girls.
For girls, Tonie reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 9.9% percentile (ranked #695) with 39 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 39 births per million (ranked 9.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Tonie ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 13.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Tonie reached its peak popularity in 1969, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #650) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tonie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Tonie is pronounced as TOH-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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