Given name & surname
Ton
“flower”
Ton is a masculine given name. It is used in Dutch.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ton possibly goes back to a word meaning “flower.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ton through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 27
- 27 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1986
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1986. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,109 as a first name in 2020; 5,259 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ton’s family of names
In Dutch usage, Ton has a conventional equivalent in the German form Toni. In Japanese usage, Ton as a surname is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 東.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ton
- Ton KoopmanDutch conductor, organist and harpsichordist, born 2 October 1944
- Ton RoosendaalDutch software developer (born 1960)
- Ton SatomiJapanese author (1888–1983)
- Ton BuunkDutch water polo playerborn 1952
- Ton Richterfield hockey player (1919–2009)
- Ton LokhoffDutch footballer and managerborn 1959
- Ton SijbrandsDutch draughts playerborn 1949
- Tôn Thất ThuyếtVietnamese revolutionary (1839-1913)1838–1913
- Ton CaanenDutch football manager (born 1966)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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