Toney
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From the medieval male personal name Toney, a pet-form of Anthony
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Toney is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 320as Toni(measured from records)
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 1.7Kas Toni
- USUnited States1 in 1.7Kas Tony
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Toney itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 526 (measured from records)
- 1 in 320 (inferred from the name graph)
191,115 named Tony, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland, as Toni
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Toni in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 4 more and Тони in MK North Macedonia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the medieval male personal name Toney, a pet-form of Anthony.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Toney counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #465 | 191,115as Tony | 1 in 1.7K | 189K | Toni | 526 |
| ID Indonesia | #419 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | listed | Toni | 171 |
| DE Germany | #401 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Toni | 211 |
| GB United Kingdom | #437 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 402 | Toni | 259 |
| FI Finland | #217 | 17,435as Toni | 1 in 320 | 19K | Toni | 75 |
| SE Sweden | — | 15,021as Tony | 1 in 679 | 15K | Toni | 57 |
| HR Croatia | — | 7,182as Toni | 1 in 589 | 8.1K | — | 7 |
| MK North Macedonia | #592 | 6,576as Тони | 1 in 323 | 6.6K | Тони | 23 |
| BG Bulgaria | #212 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Toni | 100 |
191,115 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling tony. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); State Statistical Office — living population names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Toney is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, pet-form of Antony; first attested Richard Tony 1275 SRWo
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, French; the noisy one
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Fred Toneyb. 1888USMajor League Baseball pitcher
- Kevin Toneyb. 1953USAmerican composer
- Andrew Toneyb. 1957USAmerican basketball player (born 1957)
- Anthony Toneyb. 1962USAmerican football player
- James Toneyb. 1968USAmerican former boxer and mixed martial artist
- Alroy Toneyb. 1980SRbadminton player
- Alrick Toneyb. 1995SRbadminton player
- Ivan Toneyb. 1996GBEnglish association football player
- Kadarius Toneyb. 1999USAmerican football player
- David ToneyUSactor and writer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 19K | #1,919 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 18K | #1,981 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 17K | #1,886 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 402 | #13,356 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #82,649 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Toney mean, and where does it come from?
- From the medieval male personal name Toney, a pet-form of Anthony. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Toney have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 191 thousand people named Tony, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Toney most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Toney itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Finland's: the national register counts about 1 in 320 people named Toni.
- How common is the name Toney?
- In the United States, the national register counted 191,115 people named Tony in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Toney compared with other names?
- In the United States, Toney is the 465th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/toneyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Toney” — the 465th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.