Tone (name)
Tone is a female and male given name and rarely a family name or stage name .
Origin and meaning of the name
Tone is a Norwegian female given name, which is derived as a variant of Torny from the Old Norse name Þórný (as a combination of the Norse god Þórr with nýr = new).
In addition, Tone is a Slovenian male given name as a short form for Anton .
Well-known namesake
Female first name
- Tone Damli Aaberge (* 1988), Norwegian singer
- Tone Åse (* 1965), Norwegian singer
- Tone Avenstroup (* 1963), Norwegian poet and performance artist
- Tone Folkeson (1964–1985), Norwegian table tennis player
- Tone Wilhelmsen Trøen (* 1966), Norwegian politician
- Tone Wølner (* 1978), Norwegian handball player
Male first name
- Tone Fink (* 1944), Austrian visual artist
- Tone Tomšič (1910–1942), Slovenian communist and resistance fighter
- Tone Valeruz (* 1951), Italian extreme skier, see Toni Valeruz
family name
- Franchot Tone (1905–1968), American film actor
- Ryōsuke Tone (* 1991), Japanese football player
- Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–1798), Irish independence fighter
stage name
- Tone Lōc (born 1966), American hip-hop musician and rapper
- Tone (rapper) (* 1974), German rapper
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Frequency, regional distribution, and age cohort distribution of the name Tone in Slovenia