Toni

Where Toni comes from

The dictionaries list Toni as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Antonia, sometimes used as a formal given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1907
    First appearance
    #1,512 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1931
    Toni Morrison born
    African American novelist, essayist, and academic
  3. 1968
    Peak, #145
    2,193 babies named Toni — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1984
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #235.
  5. 1990
    Toni Kroos born
    German former football player
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Antonia, sometimes used as a formal given name.
  • A male given name.
Namesakes
  • Toni Morrison · African American novelist, essayist, and academic, 1931–2019
  • Toni Kroos · German former football player, born 1990
  • Toni Braxton · American singer, born 1967
  • Toni Collette · Australian actress and musician, born 1972
  • Toni Kukoč · Croatian basketball player, born 1968

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.