Given name & surname
Tonni
Tonni is a variant of Toni. In English use, Toni carries the interpretation “priceless and highly praiseworthy; a flourishing flower.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Tonni is a variant of Toni. In English use, Toni carries the interpretation “priceless and highly praiseworthy; a flourishing flower.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Tonni is a diminutive of Anton. Anton comes from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Danish usage, Tonni is a diminutive of Anton.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1946. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tonni through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 261
- 0 boys · 261 girls
- Most popular year
- 1963
- 16 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 girls is 5 in 2004. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 16 in 1963. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 334 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tonni’s family of names
In Danish usage, Tonni is a diminutive of Anton. Tonni has a related form in Toni.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Tonni
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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