Tonesha
Tonesha was last recorded in 2005, when 6 babies were given it; 359 Americans have been recorded with it between 1969 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tonesha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tonesha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,299, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1991, the peak
Tonesha peaked in 1991, when 23 girls were given it, #4,484 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 6 | #16,299 | 3.2 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,629 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,541 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,678 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,541 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,978 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,368 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 13 | #7,009 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,228 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,407 | 9.9 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 19 | #5,253 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,484 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,533 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,512 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,257 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,753 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,738 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,369 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,203 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,190 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,177 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,232 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,889 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 8 | #8,005 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,601 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,861 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,245 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,928 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,561 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,253 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,611 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tonesha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tonesha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tonesha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tonesha, and how old are they?
An estimated 348 Americans named Tonesha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 32 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 290 people named Tonesha (286 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 351 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,084 babies since 1880, Tonesha is the second most given (12% of them).
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 Tonesha
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 Tonesha and names like it
- Compare Tonesha and TonishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTonesha peaked in 1991.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tonesha since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Tonesha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tonesha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.