Tonny

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Tonny: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Tonny: Recorded since 1957, with a gap of 29 years, it reached #258 in 1963, and it stood at #5,119 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
68years from first to last
#258highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Tonny's record

Absent from every published list for 29 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 2019–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2019	#4702
2024	#5119

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 28 of the 33 years from 1957 to 1989.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1957–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1957
First recorded at #337 among boys in Norway in 1957 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1957–1989
Highest recorded position: #258 among boys in Norway, in 1963 (recorded 1957–1989).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5119 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Tonny appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1957, and has registered 274 births with the name.

Tonny across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Tonny's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#337 (1957)	#258 (1963)	#646 (1989)	28 of 33	274 (1957–1989)	15 (1963)
England and Wales · Boys	#4702 (2019)	#4702 (2019)	#5119 (2024)	2 of 6	6 (2019–2024)	3 (2019)

Tonny by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Tonny in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	14	2 of 10	7
1960sbusiest	118	10 of 10	12
1970s	112	10 of 10	11
1980s	30	6 of 10	5

Across Norway · Boys, the 1960s were its busiest decade, averaging 12 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Tonny appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1957 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #258 in Norway in 1963.

Tonny's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#646	4	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#598	5	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#554	6	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#642	4	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#600	5	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#554	6	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#475	8	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#429	9	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#435	9	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#346	13	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#310	14	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#582	5	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#306	15	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#320	14	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#408	10	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#294	15	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#336	12	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#290	14	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#299	13	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#345	11	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#506	5	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#313	12	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#258	15	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#277	13	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#260	14	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#335	9	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#398	6	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#337	8	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1957 and 2024, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #258, first reached in 1963.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 15 births, registered in Norway in 1963.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 29 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2019, and 62 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Tonje · #15, 69y
Tønnes · #338, 17y
Tony · #22, 74y
Tonya · #409, 15y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Danial · #258, 32y
Francesco · #258, 31y
Leroy · #258, 34y
Demelza · #260, 34y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Anne-Lene · #258, 27y
Boguslaw · #257, 27y
Cristina · #260, 62y
Osman · #256, 70y

Tonny was ranked #258 in Norway · Boys in 1963. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Tonny and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Tonny without appearing here.

Tonny moved ahead of

Ronald Compare
In 1985 they stood at #642 and #479 in Norway · Boys; by 1986 that had become #554 and #593.

Moved ahead of Tonny

Denis Compare
In 1983 they stood at #554 and #624 in Norway · Boys; by 1984 that had become #600 and #249.
Nicholas Compare
In 1983 they stood at #554 and #591 in Norway · Boys; by 1984 that had become #600 and #261.
Sondre Compare
In 1973 they stood at #306 and #372 in Norway · Boys; by 1974 that had become #582 and #246.
Adrian Compare
In 1973 they stood at #306 and #485 in Norway · Boys; by 1974 that had become #582 and #280.

Moved the opposite way to Tonny

Adam Compare
Between 1957 and 1989 in Norway · Boys, Tonny went from #337 to #646 while Adam went from #253 to #110.
Anders Compare
Between 1957 and 1989 in Norway · Boys, Tonny went from #337 to #646 while Anders went from #54 to #8.
Andreas Compare
Between 1957 and 1989 in Norway · Boys, Tonny went from #337 to #646 while Andreas went from #143 to #2.
Benjamin Compare
Between 1957 and 1989 in Norway · Boys, Tonny went from #337 to #646 while Benjamin went from #422 to #94.

Moved the same way as Tonny

Alfred Compare
Between 1957 and 1989 in Norway · Boys, Tonny went from #337 to #646 and Alfred from #214 to #568.
Arild Compare
Between 1957 and 1989 in Norway · Boys, Tonny went from #337 to #646 and Arild from #26 to #172.
Arne Compare
Between 1957 and 1989 in Norway · Boys, Tonny went from #337 to #646 and Arne from #10 to #85.
Arthur Compare
Between 1957 and 1989 in Norway · Boys, Tonny went from #337 to #646 and Arthur from #180 to #369.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1957 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #258 in Norway in 1963. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Tonny across 2 official records

Tonny by decade in Norway · Boys

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