Tony
The boy's name Tony has been in the national records since 1880, with 254,483 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 783rd. About 186,000 Tonys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 56.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Tony boys named Tony
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 254,483
- Estimated living today
- 186,000
- Median age today
- 56
- Peak year
- 1961
- Best rank
- 53rd
- Rank in 2025
- 783rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 2,888 / 251,595
How old the living Tonys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 254,483 babies given the name since 1880, about 186,000 are alive — 73 in every hundred. Roughly 9,800 of them are children and 44,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1969 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Tonys
- Tony Blair (born 1953)Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007
- Tony Abbott (born 1957)Prime Minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015
- Tony Curtis (1925–2010)American actor
- Tony Bennett (1926–2023)American singer
- Tony Iommi (born 1948)British rock guitarist
- Tony Scott (1944–2012)British film director and producer
- Tony Parker (born 1982)French basketball player
- Tony Robbins (born 1960)American author, professional speaker
People named Tony with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Tony is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Tony is most concentrated in New Mexico (2.5×), North Carolina (2.0×), Tennessee (1.8×), Georgia (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1961
The most popular boys’ names the year Tony peaked:
Tony elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Tony | 52,225 | 60th |
| New Zealand boys | Tony | 5,670 | 22nd |
| England and Wales boys | Tony | 2,327 | 167th |
| Norway boys | Tony | 1,805 | 122nd |
| Ireland boys | Tony | 797 | 152nd |
| Scotland boys | Tony | 663 | 120th |
| Italy boys | Tony | 505 | — |
| Belgium boys | Tony | 391 | 479th |
| Switzerland boys | Tony | 211 | 395th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Tony | 154 | 144th |
| Poland boys | Tony | 50 birth registrations | 356th |
| France girls | Tony | 15 | 7,209th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Tony: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Tony | 65 | 0.005% | 785th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Tony | 136 | 0.031% | 147th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Tony | 9 | 0.014% | 127th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Tony | 1 | 0.027% | 13th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Tony is most concentrated in Valais, where 0.04% of children were given it – 25 of them.
Tony: rank by region
In 2022, Tony was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Tony | 434 | 6 |
In 2022, Tony was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Tony | 339 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Tony by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 117 | 145th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Tony among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Tony | 2,714 | 2,975 |
| Finland girls | Tony | 12 | 20 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Tony lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 693 men called Tony were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Tony | 42 | 0.067 | 956 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Tony | 63 | 0.063 | 1,079 |
| Ourense | Tony | 8 | 0.055 | 883 |
| Barcelona | Tony | 134 | 0.046 | 1,203 |
| Girona | Tony | 19 | 0.046 | 1,329 |
| Málaga | Tony | 37 | 0.042 | 1,236 |
Listed in 26 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 26 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Tony against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.