Given name
Tonny
Tonny is a variant of Toni. In English use, Toni carries the interpretation “priceless and highly praiseworthy; a flourishing flower.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Tonny 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
Tonny is a diminutive of Anton. Anton comes from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Danish usage, Tonny is a diminutive of Anton.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1925. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tonny through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 902
- 902 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1964
- 23 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,856 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +7%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,856 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 23 in 1964. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,038 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.
Tonny’s family of names
In Danish usage, Tonny is a diminutive of Anton. Tonny 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 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Tonny
- Tonny VilhenaDutch association football player (born 1995)
- Tonny de JongDutch speed skaterborn 1974
- Tonny van der LindenDutch football player (1932-2017)
- Tonny van Lieropfield hockey player (1910–1982)
- Tonny van EdeDutch footballer (1924-2011)
- Tonny KesslerDutch footballer (1889-1960)
- T. A. SpringerDutch mathematician (1926–2011)
- Tonny Bruins SlotDutch footballer manager (1947–2020)
- Tonny KoeswoyoIndonesian musician (1936–1987)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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