Hello, my name isGirlBoy
Tony
Pronounced /ˈtoʊni/
Rank in 2024
#801
Born in 2024
313
Peak year
1961 · #53
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 313 boys were named Tony, about 1 in every 5,480.
- It peaked in 1961 with 8,301 babies, ranked #53.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 251,269 boys have been named Tony since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Tony per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.0Greatest1901–27
- 0.9Silent1928–45
- 2.4Boomers1946–64
- 2.6Gen X1965–80
- 1.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.5Gen Z1997–12
- 0.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 16,983 babies, 1.02 per 1,000. Silent: 19,446 babies, 0.94 per 1,000. Boomers: 88,866 babies, 2.37 per 1,000. Gen X: 69,408 babies, 2.55 per 1,000. Millennials: 34,353 babies, 1.13 per 1,000. Gen Z: 15,502 babies, 0.49 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 5,734 babies, 0.26 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Clipping of Anthony / Antony. The statuettes awarded by the American Theatre Wing are formally known as “Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre”; they are named for Antoinette Perry (1888–1946), an actress, director, producer and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, who was nicknamed Tony.
- A male given name, a short form of Anthony/Antony
- A female given name.
- A surname transferred from the given name
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈtoʊni/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Tony, CC BY-SA 4.0.