# Tone (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tone/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈtoʊn/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 99 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 45 / 54 (55% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 5 | 7,500 |
| 1988 | 7 | 10,326 |
| 1990 | 7 | 11,330 |
| 1991 | 6 | 13,033 |
| 1992 | 7 | 11,661 |
| 1993 | 5 | 15,646 |
| 1995 | 5 | 15,611 |
| 1996 | 5 | 15,719 |
| 1997 | 7 | 11,996 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 5 | 6,996 |
| 1991 | 6 | 8,160 |
| 1993 | 6 | 8,611 |
| 1994 | 6 | 8,711 |
| 1995 | 5 | 10,199 |
| 1996 | 7 | 7,896 |
| 1998 | 5 | 11,168 |
| 2015 | 5 | 13,856 |

## People named Tone

- Tone Wieten, Dutch rower
- Tone Lōc, American rapper
- Tone Bell, American actor
- Tone Haugen, association football player
- Tone Gunn Frustøl, Association footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.