Tonnie
Tonnie was last recorded in 2008, when 5 babies were given it; 1,157 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tonnie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tonnie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,479, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
51 babies in 1960, the peak
Tonnie peaked in 1960, when 51 babies were given it (27 girls, #2,297 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | under 5 | 5 | #14,410 | |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,479 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,785 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,443 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,993 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,286 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,494 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,525 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,440 | 6 | #8,354 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 5 | #9,511 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 8 | #10,131 | 11 | #4,957 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,416 | 6 | #7,824 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,325 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,332 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 6 | #6,156 | |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,876 | 5 | #7,206 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,307 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 6 | #10,135 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,318 | 6 | #5,790 |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,093 | 6 | #5,536 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,122 | 6 | #5,409 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,703 | 5 | #5,944 |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,817 | |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,241 | 6 | #4,956 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,796 | 10 | #3,345 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,239 | 12 | #2,880 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,309 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,771 | 12 | #2,562 |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,070 | 22 | #1,704 |
| 1966 | 21 | #2,743 | 15 | #2,126 |
| 1965 | 19 | #2,926 | 21 | #1,769 |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,406 | 16 | #2,107 |
| 1963 | 28 | #2,299 | 20 | #1,837 |
| 1962 | 25 | #2,458 | 17 | #2,027 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,602 | 18 | #1,994 |
| 1960 | 27 | #2,297 | 24 | #1,687 |
| 1959 | 25 | #2,333 | 16 | #2,102 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,746 | 15 | #2,168 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,816 | 15 | #2,184 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,617 | 12 | #2,486 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,958 | 11 | #2,541 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,690 | 10 | #2,722 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,692 | 10 | #2,696 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,183 | 11 | #2,499 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,987 | 6 | #3,683 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,644 | 13 | #2,196 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,612 | 9 | #2,790 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,858 | 7 | #3,298 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,888 | 9 | #2,844 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,385 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,733 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,184 | 5 | #3,861 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,316 | 6 | #3,517 |
| 1942 | 7 | #4,091 | under 5 | |
| 1941 | 5 | #5,024 | under 5 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 5 | #3,900 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 8 | #2,810 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 6 | #3,505 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 6 | #3,493 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 5 | #4,106 | |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,548 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 5 | #4,901 | |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,917 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,954 | 5 | #4,895 |
| 1920 | under 5 | 6 | #4,241 | |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,483 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,247 | under 5 | |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,890 | 7 | #3,364 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Tonnie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,157 Americans recorded as Tonnie, 59% are girls and 41% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tonnie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tonnie, and how old are they?
An estimated 877 Americans named Tonnie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 54 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 877 people named Tonnie (541 women and girls, 336 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 942 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Tonnie?
Tonnie is a less common spelling of Toni: SSA has recorded 1,157 Tonnie and 101,762 Toni since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 130,229 babies since 1880, Tonnie is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 94 babies recorded by SSA was a Tonnie (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Tonnie
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 Tonnie and names like it
- Compare Tonnie and ToniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTonnie peaked in 1960.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tonnie since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Tonnie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Tonnie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.