Tony

given name · English · Latin script

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

Tony is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In New Zealand it is the 40th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: , occasionally 2 Shortened form of }Anthony, now sometimes used as an independent given name.

rarermore common
  • NZNew Zealand1 in 541◐
  • SESweden1 in 679
  • AUAustralia1 in 734

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

≈298K ●

across 10 countries

#785 ●

of 16M given names

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
576 ●

3.0M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 320 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

TonyLatin · English●3.1M records
ԹոնիArmenian · Armenian●1 records

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●

, occasionally 2 Shortened form of }Anthony, now sometimes used as an independent given name.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Tony is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#163218,570171K rec.——Tony289
US United States#189188,8322.4M rec.1 in 1.8K189KTony576
AU Australia#134157,969128K rec.—90Tony303
CA Canada#15784,10076K rec.—6Tony244
FR France—52,125△175 rec.1 in 1.3K52K—11
IT Italy#32624,41124K rec.——Tony143
DE Germany#59224,17323K rec.——Tony169
IN India—19,11615K rec.—466Tony161
PH Philippines—18,74718K rec.——Tony99
NG Nigeria#42617,88120K rec.——Tony117
FI Finland—17,435△1.7K rec.1 in 32019KTony86
NZ New Zealand#4015,8269.9K rec.——Tony148

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

Languages●

  • English3.1M67%
  • French397K9%
  • Spanish244K5%
  • Portuguese158K3%
  • 140K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English3,129,63367%
French397,2519%
Spanish243,8665%
Portuguese158,0393%
140,3623%

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◐

Tony is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name878K records spelled Tony33 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Brazil, Venezuela

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Töny, Tõny, Tõnÿ, Toñy, Tôny

  • Indonesian given name33K records spelled Tony7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Malaysia, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay, Malagasy

    Also written Toñy, 'Tony, Tõný, Toný

  • Polish given name26K records spelled Tony60 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Toni, Тони, Тоні, Toney, Tawny

  • Finnish given name23K records spelled Tony13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Hungary, Sweden

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Toñy, Tõny, Tõnÿ, Tőńý, Ťoñy

  • a separate given name13K records spelled Tony12 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Töńÿ, Toňy, Tōnÿ, Tõný, Tôny

  • Japanese given name13K records spelled Tony4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Nigeria

    Also written Toñy, Tôñÿ, Töñy

82 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●

Tony is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A male given name, a short form of Anthony/Antony

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Praiseworthy; of inestimable worth

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

  • In English, diminutive of Anthony

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

  • In Italian, Variante di Antoni

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • English: short form of ANTHONY , now sometimes used as an independent name in the English-speaking world.

    as a word

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●

02.5K5K7.5K10K1900195020008.3K · 1961

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Tony in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188042
188136
188246
188332
188441
188533
188629
188740
188857
188945
189039
189153
189247
189342
189448
189543
189656
189754
189851
189942
1900101
190162
190274
190378
190487
190586
190696
1907139
1908142
1909155
1910212
1911207
1912394
1913508
1914733
19151,016
19161,054
19171,111
19181,163
19191,097
19201,146
19211,196
19221,146
19231,025
19241,034
1925977
19261,012
19271,033
1928955
1929874
1930912
1931814
1932856
1933810
1934841
1935882
1936892
1937922
19381,059
19391,175
19401,233
19411,225
19421,408
19431,455
19441,494
19451,639
19461,972
19472,280
19482,269
19491,985
19501,757
19511,931
19522,185
19532,771
19543,350
19553,752
19564,669
19575,857
19586,946
19597,564
19607,999
19618,306
19628,197
19637,879
19647,199
19656,815
19666,571
19676,220
19685,875
19695,516
19705,480
19714,889
19724,001
19733,348
19743,216
19753,322
19763,067
19772,938
19782,770
19792,645
19802,727
19812,650
19822,611
19832,351
19842,440
19852,525
19862,361
19872,291
19882,243
19892,301
19902,183
19912,102
19921,927
19931,872
19941,627
19951,556
19961,315
19971,248
19981,177
19991,134
20001,086
20011,025
20021,072
20031,000
2004959
20051,030
2006985
20071,002
2008886
2009805
2010751
2011691
2012653
2013664
2014666
2015581
2016567
2017520
2018471
2019467
2020427
2021392
2022379
2023290
2024313
2025325

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 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●

1850190019502000Tony Garnier, b. 1869Tony Curtis, b. 1925Tony Roberts, b. 1939Tony Sirico, b. 1942Tony Shalhoub, b. 1953Tony Blair, b. 1953Tony Gilroy, b. 1956Tony Abbott, b. 1957Tony Parker, b. 1982Tony Revolori, b. 1996

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 126 sources across 71 countries.

Official registers attesting Tony
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020189K#290
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202452K#506
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—15K#294
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20209.7K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20229K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—8.9K#1,845
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—7.2K#2,648
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—5.4K#621
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—3.7K#749
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—3K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20242.3K#446
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.3K#290

Reference works 4

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 · 1,648 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tony?
We estimate roughly 298 thousand people bear Tony (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Tony have the most bearers?
Tony is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled tony.
Where is Tony most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tony is densest in Finland — about 1 in 320 people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
How common is Tony compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Tony is the 163rd most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Tony a male or female name?
Tony 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 Tony mean?
Recorded meaning: , occasionally 2 Shortened form of }Anthony, now sometimes used as an independent given name.
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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, “Tony” — the 163rd most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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