# Toney (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/toney/  
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 |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,610 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6,416 / 194 (3% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 7 | 5,655 |
| 1961 | 6 | 6,511 |
| 1962 | 5 | 7,501 |
| 1963 | 6 | 6,540 |
| 1964 | 6 | 6,713 |
| 1965 | 6 | 6,481 |
| 1969 | 5 | 8,614 |
| 1970 | 10 | 5,385 |
| 1971 | 5 | 9,553 |
| 1973 | 9 | 6,047 |
| 1975 | 5 | 10,508 |
| 1978 | 6 | 9,667 |
| 1982 | 6 | 10,439 |
| 1985 | 6 | 10,605 |
| 1994 | 7 | 11,708 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 17 | 5,410 |
| 2012 | 20 | 4,844 |
| 2013 | 10 | 8,049 |
| 2014 | 14 | 6,278 |
| 2015 | 10 | 7,988 |
| 2016 | 14 | 6,317 |
| 2017 | 8 | 9,603 |
| 2018 | 8 | 9,581 |
| 2019 | 9 | 8,815 |
| 2020 | 10 | 7,996 |
| 2021 | 7 | 10,696 |
| 2022 | 6 | 12,180 |
| 2023 | 9 | 8,852 |
| 2024 | 6 | 12,218 |
| 2025 | 6 | 11,855 |

## People named Toney

- Toney Douglas, American basketball player (born 1986)
- Toney Anaya, American politician

## 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.