Tony
Tony is ranked 803rd among boys in 2024 (313 births). Its best rank was 48th, in 1965.
- Rank in 2024
- #803up 41 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3130.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 19618,301 births
- Best rank
- #48in 1965
- Since 1880
- 254,158people given the name
The story in the numbers
251,269 boys have been named Tony in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 8,301 births — 0.39% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 313 births in 2024, against 8,301 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1964, and the 1960s alone account for 28%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 24 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,889 girls have also been given it, 1.1% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Tony | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 401 | |
| 1890s | 475 | |
| 1900s | 1,020 | |
| 1910s | 7,495 | |
| 1920s | 10,398 | |
| 1930s | 9,163 | |
| 1940s | 16,960 | |
| 1950s | 40,786 | |
| 1960s | 70,575 | |
| 1970s | 35,679 | |
| 1980s | 24,500 | |
| 1990s | 16,139 | |
| 2000s | 9,849 | |
| 2010s | 6,030 | |
| 2020s | 1,799 |
In 1961, its biggest year
Tony was the 53rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1961 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1961.
Names that rose and fell with Tony
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Reginaldpeak 1962
- Keithpeak 1957
- Curtpeak 1960
- Bartpeak 1959
- Dinopeak 1960
- Carypeak 1957
- Jaypeak 1960
- Kerwinpeak 1959
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.