Toney

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Toney is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From the medieval male personal name Toney, a pet-form of Anthony.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 320◐
  • USUnited States1 in 1.8K
  • AUAustralia1 in 2.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈306K ●

across 11 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
473 ●

1.3M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 320 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

ToniLatin · English●955K records
ТониCyrillic · Bulgarian●3K records
ᲢონიGeorgian · Georgian●52 records
토니Hangul · Korean●29 records

Locally spelled Toni in US United States, ES Spain, GB United Kingdom and 22 more, Toñi in FR France and Тони in MK North Macedonia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

From the medieval male personal name Toney, a pet-form of Anthony.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Toney is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#476188,832983K rec.1 in 1.8K189KToni473
GB United Kingdom#43364,31157K rec.—listedToni203
AU Australia#35854,21539K rec.—90Toni199
FR France—52,125△61 rec.1 in 1.3K52KToñi9
DE Germany#39648,11245K rec.—listedToni201
CA Canada#58519,66021K rec.—6Toni147
ID Indonesia#42418,0993.9K rec.—listedToni160
FI Finland—17,435△2.1K rec.1 in 32019KToni81
SE Sweden—15,021△637 rec.1 in 67915KToni62
IN India—10,6138.2K rec.—466Toni59
BR Brazil—8,975△476 rec.1 in 24K9KToni12
PH Philippines—8,0265.3K rec.——Toni76

Roughly 189K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 1.8K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English162K86%
  • Spanish5.6K3%
  • 4.7K3%
  • German1.2K1%
  • French1.1K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English162,24386%
Spanish5,6063%
4,7213%
German1,2451%
French1,1211%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Toney is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname1.3K records spelled Toney3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Tonēy

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Toney is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, pet-form of Antony; first attested Richard Tony 1275 SRWo

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, French; the noisy one

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

050100150200190019502000187 · 1961

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Toney in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
18807
18816
18828
18835
188410
18859
188611
188710
188816
189010
189111
18927
18938
189413
18967
18977
18989
18997
190019
190110
19028
190310
190410
190512
19067
190711
19085
190920
191010
19119
191225
191326
191440
191545
191633
191755
191847
191950
192044
192143
192240
192340
192444
192543
192633
192736
192846
192935
193019
193131
193230
193325
193435
193540
193635
193731
193841
193932
194058
194150
194260
194344
194447
194552
194672
194766
194859
194966
195064
195181
195267
195386
195493
1955128
1956105
1957103
1958154
1959172
1960139
1961187
1962159
1963155
1964138
1965133
1966148
1967141
1968111
1969114
1970114
197172
197294
197363
197471
197557
197653
197747
197846
197961
198054
198148
198273
198348
198457
198557
198649
198745
198853
198966
199048
199156
199257
199334
199443
199545
199636
199733
199830
199918
200022
200133
200234
200322
200421
200520
200621
200727
20089
200917
201020
201117
201220
201310
201414
201510
201614
20178
20188
20199
202010
20217
20226
20239
20246
20256

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 144 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Fred Toney, b. 1888Kevin Toney, b. 1953Andrew Toney, b. 1957Anthony Toney, b. 1962James Toney, b. 1968Alroy Toney, b. 1980Alrick Toney, b. 1995Ivan Toney, b. 1996Kadarius Toney, b. 1999

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 23 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Toney
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201019K#1,919
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202018K#1,981
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200017K#1,886
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.2K#5,113
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025315#333
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020226#5,113
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1961187—
VC St. Vincent & GrenadinesElectoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025)2025182#101
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1959172—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1962159—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1963155—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)1958154—

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 198 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Toney?
We estimate roughly 306 thousand people bear Toney (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Toney have the most bearers?
We estimate about 189 thousand people bear Toney in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled toni.
Where is Toney most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Toney is densest in Finland — about 1 in 320 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Toney compared with other names?
In the United States, Toney is the 476th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
What does the name Toney mean?
Recorded meaning: From the medieval male personal name Toney, a pet-form of Anthony.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Toney” — the 476th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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