Tona
Tona was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,775 among girls’ names; 1,427 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Tona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 51 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tona?
#14,775 among girls’ names, 2025
Tona entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #14,775 in 2025.
59 babies in 1964, the peak
Tona peaked in 1964, when 59 girls were given it, #1,478 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,775 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 6 | #15,022 | 3.7 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,782 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,719 | 4.4 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,491 | 4.6 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,488 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,492 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,440 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 6 | #13,025 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,850 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 10 | #7,991 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,320 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,722 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,573 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,279 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,728 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,674 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,766 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,335 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,984 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,832 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,770 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,257 | 15.7 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,540 | 21.8 |
| 1975 | 38 | #2,227 | 26.1 |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,343 | 23.2 |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,167 | 25.4 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,592 | 18.4 |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,727 | 16.2 |
| 1970 | 42 | #2,014 | 24.0 |
| 1969 | 38 | #2,052 | 22.5 |
| 1968 | 38 | #1,973 | 23.2 |
| 1967 | 30 | #2,210 | 18.2 |
| 1966 | 45 | #1,698 | 26.6 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,988 | 19.8 |
| 1964 | 59 | #1,478 | 31.1 |
| 1963 | 54 | #1,544 | 28.0 |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,704 | 22.9 |
| 1961 | 40 | #1,834 | 19.8 |
| 1960 | 38 | #1,853 | 18.8 |
| 1959 | 48 | #1,583 | 23.7 |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,065 | 14.9 |
| 1957 | 50 | #1,528 | 24.5 |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,965 | 15.4 |
| 1955 | 29 | #2,020 | 14.8 |
| 1954 | 33 | #1,831 | 17.0 |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,230 | 12.2 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,574 | 9.7 |
| 1951 | 24 | #2,059 | 13.3 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,117 | 12.8 |
| 1949 | 24 | #2,008 | 14.0 |
| 1948 | 25 | #1,949 | 14.7 |
| 1947 | 33 | #1,692 | 18.6 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,964 | 14.6 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,113 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,615 | 9.8 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,782 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,801 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,532 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,482 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,901 | 9.1 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,940 | 4.5 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,247 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,800 | 5.0 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,814 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tona has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tona, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 1,427 Americans ever recorded as Tona. The median Tona alive today is 60 years old; half are between 51 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 1,411 people named Tona (1,358 women and girls, 53 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,253 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 37 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 515 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 465 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 155 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 13 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 251,195 babies since 1880, Tona is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 111 babies (5.4%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tona
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tona and names like it
- Compare Tona and TonyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTona peaked in 1964.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tona since 1910.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Tona.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Tona alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.