Tonja
Tonja is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 408th, in 1967.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1967512 births
- Best rank
- #408in 1967
- Since 1940
- 6,989people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,989 girls have been named Tonja in the United States since 1940, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1967, with 512 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 512 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1968, and the 1960s alone account for 48%. It has spent 18 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1967, its biggest year
Tonja was the 408th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1967 were Lisa, Kimberly, Michelle, Mary and Susan. See all of 1967.
Names that rose and fell with Tonja
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Traceypeak 1970
- Shawnepeak 1969
- Gidgetpeak 1966
- Tracypeak 1970
- Tammipeak 1968
- Kimberelypeak 1970
- Shellipeak 1968
- Dawnpeak 1970
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.