Tonya
Tonya is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. Its best rank was 36th, in 1973.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 180.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19727,243 births
- Best rank
- #36in 1973
- Since 1923
- 120,412people given the name
The story in the numbers
120,412 girls have been named Tonya in the United States since 1923, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1972, with 7,243 births — 0.48% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 18 births in 2024, against 7,243 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1972, and the 1970s alone account for 48%. It has spent 56 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 15 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Tonya | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 7 | |
| 1930s | 123 | |
| 1940s | 945 | |
| 1950s | 4,695 | |
| 1960s | 34,071 | |
| 1970s | 57,789 | |
| 1980s | 17,988 | |
| 1990s | 3,664 | |
| 2000s | 775 | |
| 2010s | 279 | |
| 2020s | 76 |
In 1972, its biggest year
Tonya was the 37th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1972 were Jennifer, Michelle, Lisa, Kimberly and Amy. See all of 1972.
Names that rose and fell with Tonya
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Latoniapeak 1972
- Wendipeak 1970
- Taunyapeak 1971
- Lasonyapeak 1971
- Toniapeak 1970
- Tijuanapeak 1972
- Angleapeak 1972
- Tawnyapeak 1972
Other spellings in the data
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.