Tone — unisex name

What the Data Says About Tone

The Social Security Administration has registered 54 babies named Tone between 1962 and 1997, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tone currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1997. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 7 babies received it in a single year. Tone is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 45 additional births since 1979.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tone performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 42 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Tone shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tone in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 54 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.