Toney
Toney is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 501st, in 1888.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1961187 births
- Best rank
- #501in 1888
- Since 1880
- 6,604people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,410 boys have been named Toney in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 187 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 187 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1961, and the 1960s alone account for 22%. It has spent 65 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 194 girls have also been given it, 2.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Toney | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 82 | |
| 1890s | 79 | |
| 1900s | 112 | |
| 1910s | 340 | |
| 1920s | 404 | |
| 1930s | 319 | |
| 1940s | 574 | |
| 1950s | 1,053 | |
| 1960s | 1,425 | |
| 1970s | 678 | |
| 1980s | 550 | |
| 1990s | 400 | |
| 2000s | 226 | |
| 2010s | 130 | |
| 2020s | 38 |
In 1961, its biggest year
Toney was the 581st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1961 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1961.
Names that rose and fell with Toney
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cliffpeak 1959
- Martinpeak 1963
- Perrypeak 1959
- Lenpeak 1960
- Leepeak 1951
- Lonniepeak 1947
- Johnpeak 1947
- Alpeak 1959
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.