Tonia
Tonia was given to 5 girls in 2025, #17,059 among girls’ names; 22,247 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 20,000 Americans named Tonia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 50 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tonia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tonia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tonia is “a diminutive of the female given name Antonia”
Also “a female given name, variant of Tonya: Phonetic rendering of Ukrainian То́ня (Tónja), an informal diminutive form of Антоні́на (Antonína, “Antonina”).”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tonia?
#17,059 among girls’ names, 2025
Tonia fell from #14,373 in 2015 to #17,059 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.9 to 3.1 per million.
1,431 babies in 1971, the peak
Tonia peaked in 1971, when 1,431 babies were given it (1,425 girls, #212 among girls’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,059 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,479 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,947 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,352 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,518 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,635 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,355 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,373 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,858 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,190 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 15 | #8,184 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,370 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,483 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,314 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,387 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,089 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,693 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,867 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,727 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,720 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,875 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,478 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,801 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,928 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 49 | #2,751 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,222 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,752 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 49 | #2,580 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 73 | #1,945 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 85 | #1,748 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 75 | #1,887 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 99 | #1,557 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 99 | #1,552 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 111 | #1,369 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 119 | #1,246 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 134 | #1,121 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 155 | #1,000 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 188 | #857 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 166 | #904 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 230 | #724 | 0.14 |
| 1982 | 268 | #663 | 0.16 |
| 1981 | 312 | #592 | 0.19 |
| 1980 | 397 | #509 | 0.24 |
| 1979 | 462 | #443 | 0.29 |
| 1978 | 561 | #377 | 0.37 |
| 1977 | 723 | #326 | 0.47 |
| 1976 | 808 | #285 | 0.55 |
| 1975 | 957 | #255 | 0.66 |
| 1974 | 1,174 | #220 | 0.80 |
| 1973 | 1,119 | #227 | 0.77 |
| 1972 | 1,280 | #217 | 0.84 |
| 1971 | 1,425 | #212 | 0.86 |
| 1970 | 1,429 | #219 | 0.82 |
| 1969 | 1,318 | #228 | 0.78 |
| 1968 | 1,148 | #241 | 0.70 |
| 1967 | 1,061 | #258 | 0.64 |
| 1966 | 679 | #345 | 0.40 |
| 1965 | 490 | #423 | 0.28 |
| 1964 | 492 | #440 | 0.26 |
| 1963 | 398 | #488 | 0.21 |
| 1962 | 413 | #477 | 0.21 |
| 1961 | 377 | #503 | 0.19 |
| 1960 | 347 | #520 | 0.17 |
| 1959 | 308 | #556 | 0.15 |
| 1958 | 299 | #567 | 0.15 |
| 1957 | 230 | #646 | 0.11 |
| 1956 | 184 | #705 | 0.09 |
| 1955 | 157 | #761 | 0.08 |
| 1954 | 109 | #924 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 105 | #925 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 105 | #904 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 90 | #986 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 75 | #1,071 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 74 | #1,047 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 76 | #1,008 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 82 | #977 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 52 | #1,205 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 39 | #1,287 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 37 | #1,336 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 48 | #1,177 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 37 | #1,346 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 31 | #1,416 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 33 | #1,310 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 27 | #1,471 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 37 | #1,216 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 29 | #1,384 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,944 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 24 | #1,541 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,907 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 16 | #2,042 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 10 | #3,030 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 7 | #4,012 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,364 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,534 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,998 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,715 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,986 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,247 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,861 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tonia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tonia has been given almost only to girls: 53 boys in 99 years of records.
Girls and boys named Tonia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tonia, and how old are they?
20,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 22,247 Americans ever recorded as Tonia. The median Tonia alive today is 55 years old; half are between 50 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 18,527 people named Tonia (18,475 women and girls, 52 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 20,653 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 162 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,260 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 14,000 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,140 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 443 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 80 |
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).
Where are babies named Tonia born?
The states with the most babies named Tonia are Ohio, California and New York, with 21% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 1,444 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 1,368 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 1,265 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 1,152 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 1,106 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 958 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 870 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 749 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 736 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Florida | 724 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Tonia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tonia is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1917 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tonia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 252,076 babies since 1880, Tonia is the third most given (8.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 111 babies (4.5%), the fourth 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 Tonia
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 Tonia and names like it
- Compare Tonia and TonyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTonia peaked in 1971.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tonia since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Tonia.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tonia alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.