Tonna
Tonna was last recorded in 2008, when 5 babies were given it; 799 Americans have been recorded with it between 1944 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tonna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tonna?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #20,248, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
33 babies in 1966, the peak
Tonna peaked in 1966, when 33 girls were given it, #2,054 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #20,248 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,988 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 7 | #14,074 | 3.8 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,722 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,314 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,424 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,996 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,405 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,606 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,296 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 8 | #10,203 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,855 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,771 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,697 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,136 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,475 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,240 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,767 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,997 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,188 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 8 | #8,091 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #12,046 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,219 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,603 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,928 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,343 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,763 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,340 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,950 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 15 | #4,078 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,796 | 15.6 |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,104 | 12.6 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,192 | 11.3 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,158 | 11.0 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,625 | 13.9 |
| 1966 | 33 | #2,054 | 19.5 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,677 | 12.5 |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,746 | 11.6 |
| 1963 | 31 | #2,168 | 16.1 |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,734 | 10.7 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,668 | 10.9 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,814 | 9.9 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,858 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,572 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,411 | 11.2 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,174 | 7.5 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,832 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,700 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,586 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,403 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,683 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,940 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,611 | 9.4 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,824 | 8.2 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,761 | 8.5 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,384 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,902 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,939 | 8.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tonna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tonna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tonna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tonna, and how old are they?
An estimated 694 Americans named Tonna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 47 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 713 people named Tonna (687 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 725 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
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 252,076 babies since 1880, Tonna is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 111 babies recorded by SSA was a Tonna (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Tonna
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 Tonna and names like it
- Compare Tonna and TonyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTonna peaked in 1966.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tonna since 1910.
- The top names of 1966The year the most babies were named Tonna.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Tonna alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.