Boys' name · since 1980
Ton
Ton has 27 recorded births since 1980 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1986 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #26,803 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 27
- born since 1980
- 1980s
- peak decade
27 boys have been named Ton since 1980, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Ton has 27 recorded births among boys since 1980, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1980 to 2012.
- #26,803 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- 27 born since 1980
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Ton ranks #26,803 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 27 born since 1980, peaking in the 1980s.
- #26,803 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 27
- born since 1980
- 1980s
- peak decade
Ton's 27 recorded births place it above 41.01% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Ton's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Ton's full recorded timeline at 1986, 63% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 37% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1980, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1986 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Ton popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1980–2012
- Peak year (1986)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 33 years of records
Ton by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (22 births, 81% of the file).
1980s was Ton's strongest decade.
22 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 81% of all-time use.
Ton births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s
1980s
22 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 22 births (81% of all-time use).
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- Ton's decade-level peak was the 1980s (22 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Ton: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1986)
Similar record span (~32 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1980–2012 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Ton draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.