The name Tony is a short form of Anthony, the English form of the Roman family name Antonius, which is of unknown origin.
Tony is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Tony isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Tony ranks 509. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Tony. In the entire USA, approximately 245,682 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Tony. That is 0.07 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Tony is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Tony for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Tony is therefore one of only 442 boys’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Tony is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed at #48 Tony easily made it into the top 100 boys' names of our SmartGenius statistics for male first names and has never been more popular than back in 1965.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Tony was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Wherever you go, wherever you live – there’s a good chance to meet Tony. Because: There are men and boys named Tony in every state in the USA. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, just 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Tony is definitely something very special. In some regions it even makes it into the top 100 of the most popular male first names, for example in North Carolina, where Tony ranks on position 64. The greatest chance of meeting Tony, however, is in New Mexico, where one in 283 boys and men bears this beautiful name – that is far above average – in the entire USA it is only one in 681 men and boys and in Vermont, where the name is least represented in relation to the population, you even have to ask an average of 5,704 men and boys for their name before you once get Tony as an answer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names. That’s because 6.3% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With four letters, the name Tony is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 6.3% of all boys' names that begin with the letter T, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Thomas is the boys’ name starting with T, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Tony and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Tony, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Tony sounds like this:
