Toney

Where Toney comes from

Toney hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #745 among boys — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1888
    Peak, #484
    16 babies named Toney — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1889
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1941
    Toney Anaya born
    American politician
  5. 1986
    Toney Douglas born
    American basketball player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Toney Douglas · American basketball player, born 1986
  • Toney Anaya · American politician, born 1941
  • Toney Freeman · American IFBB bodybuilder, born 1966
  • Toney Mack · American basketball player, born 1967
  • Toney Penna · professional golfer, 1908–1995

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.