Tonny

given name · Spanish · Latin script

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

Tonny is a given name, most frequently recorded in Kenya. In Uganda it is the 39th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Danish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a diminutive of the male given name Anton.

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 2.2K◐
  • KEKenya1 in 3.7K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 12K

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

≈8.7K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
161 ●

35K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.2K ◐

Denmark

Meaning & origin●

a diminutive of the male given name Anton

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Tonny is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KE Kenya#3877,8922.8K rec.—1Tonny42
ID Indonesia—5,6511.1K rec.—listedTonny114
VE Venezuela—5,6132.3K rec.—1.1KTonny30
PE Peru—3,2882.7K rec.——Tonny36
DK Denmark#3152,619△892 rec.1 in 2.2K2.6KTonny103
MX Mexico—2,3212.2K rec.——Tonny45
NL Netherlands—1,4524.1K rec.1 in 12K1.5KTonny56
SE Sweden—1,243△205 rec.1 in 8.2K1.2KTonny28
MY Malaysia—1,123555 rec.——Tonny24
EC Ecuador—1,042△59 rec.1 in 16K1KTonny20
US United States—9759.3K rec.1 in 341K975Tonny161
ZA South Africa—8721K rec.——Tonny24

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

Languages●

  • Spanish15K16%
  • Danish14K15%
  • English14K15%
  • Portuguese10K11%
  • Swahili10K11%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish14,77116%
Danish14,00515%
English13,65315%
Portuguese10,24511%
Swahili10,04211%

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◐

Tonny is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name5.6K records spelled Tonny3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Tanzania

    Also written Tônny, T̶o̶n̶n̶y̶

  • French given name3.7K records spelled Tonny7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Tónny, Toññy, Tonný, Tônny, Tönny

  • Hindi given name517 records spelled Tonny92 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Tunisia, United States, Bangladesh

    Languages: Hindi, Arabic, Vietnamese

    Also written Tanu, Tuni, Toni, Tana, Thanu

  • Japanese given name184 records spelled Tonny2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan

    Also written Toññy

  • Russian surname62 records spelled Tonny13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Ukraine, Netherlands

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Тонни, Тонны, Tonni, Тонні, Tõññy

41 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.

Over time●

01020301940196019802000202023 · 1964

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Tonny in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1925–2025
Yearrecords
19255
19355
19396
19407
19416
19438
19467
19476
19488
195018
195211
19536
19548
195510
195611
195713
195813
195912
196016
196121
196219
196321
196423
196518
196619
196717
196820
196918
19709
197122
197213
19738
197411
19757
197616
19777
197811
19798
19806
19815
198311
19848
198517
198620
198714
198816
198910
199015
199115
19925
19937
199415
19958
199612
199713
19987
199910
200012
200114
20027
200312
200412
20058
200610
20075
20089
200918
201015
201110
20127
20136
20149
201510
20168
20179
20196
20206
20217
20225
20238
20245
20256

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 82 years between 1925–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Tonny van Lierop, b. 1910Tonny Ahm, b. 1914Tonny Huurdeman, b. 1922T. A. Springer, b. 1926Tonny Zwollo, b. 1942Tonny Bruins Slot, b. 1947Tonny Mols, b. 1969Tonny de Jong, b. 1974Tonny Wamulwa, b. 1989Tonny Trindade de Vilhena, b. 1995

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 52 sources across 33 countries.

Official registers attesting Tonny
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—2.6K#189
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—1.5K#837
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.2K#1,464
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—1.1K#1,970
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—1.1K#1,456
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20241K#694
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—982#1,663
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020975#12,114
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022791—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—788#9,753
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—777#1,531
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020731—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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 · 438 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tonny?
We estimate roughly 8.7 thousand people bear Tonny (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Tonny have the most bearers?
Tonny is most frequently recorded in Kenya, where it is most often spelled tonny.
How common is Tonny compared with other names?
In Kenya, Tonny is the 387th most common given name of 51,773 given names recorded there.
Is Tonny a male or female name?
Tonny is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Tonny mean?
Recorded meaning: a diminutive of the male given name Anton
Query this name via API
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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, “Tonny” — the 387th most common given name in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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