Tonette
Tonette was last recorded in 1999, when 7 babies were given it; 1,505 Americans have been recorded with it between 1939 and 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,320 Americans named Tonette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 50 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tonette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tonette?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,598, in 1999; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
73 babies in 1967, the peak
Tonette peaked in 1967, when 73 girls were given it, #1,268 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 7 | #12,598 | 3.9 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,612 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,285 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,538 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,673 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,439 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,227 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,114 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,414 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #7,082 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 18 | #4,651 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,174 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,842 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,159 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,870 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,767 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,526 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,997 | 18.1 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,992 | 18.1 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,771 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,167 | 16.3 |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,723 | 19.8 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,394 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,204 | 15.0 |
| 1973 | 38 | #2,124 | 26.1 |
| 1972 | 42 | #1,970 | 27.6 |
| 1971 | 40 | #2,105 | 24.0 |
| 1970 | 64 | #1,543 | 36.6 |
| 1969 | 69 | #1,399 | 40.9 |
| 1968 | 58 | #1,503 | 35.4 |
| 1967 | 73 | #1,268 | 44.2 |
| 1966 | 40 | #1,822 | 23.6 |
| 1965 | 55 | #1,514 | 31.2 |
| 1964 | 42 | #1,834 | 22.2 |
| 1963 | 49 | #1,646 | 25.4 |
| 1962 | 57 | #1,491 | 29.0 |
| 1961 | 60 | #1,450 | 29.7 |
| 1960 | 53 | #1,538 | 26.2 |
| 1959 | 63 | #1,356 | 31.1 |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,851 | 17.9 |
| 1957 | 39 | #1,749 | 19.1 |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,966 | 15.4 |
| 1955 | 34 | #1,835 | 17.4 |
| 1954 | 28 | #2,020 | 14.4 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,064 | 13.8 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,535 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,089 | 7.2 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,896 | 8.2 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,208 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,125 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,987 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,202 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,991 | 5.4 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,711 | 5.9 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,303 | 5.2 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,748 | 6.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tonette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tonette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tonette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tonette, and how old are they?
1,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 88% of the 1,505 Americans ever recorded as Tonette. The median Tonette alive today is 58 years old; half are between 50 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 1,215 people named Tonette (1,212 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,376 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 13 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 484 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 603 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 208 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 13 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Tonette born?
The states with the most babies named Tonette are California, Illinois and Louisiana, with 77% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 132 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 28 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 20 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New York | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tonette with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,872 babies since 1880, Tonette is the most given (52% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tonette
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tonette and names like it
- Compare Tonette and ToinetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTonette peaked in 1967.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tonette since 1910.
- The top names of 1967The year the most babies were named Tonette.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tonette alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.