Tonyia
Tonyia was last recorded in 1985, when 7 babies were given it; 572 Americans have been recorded with it between 1948 and 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tonyia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tonyia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,241, in 1985; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
45 babies in 1969, the peak
Tonyia peaked in 1969, when 45 girls were given it, #1,869 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 7 | #9,241 | 4.1 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,202 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,203 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 7 | #9,041 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 5 | #12,047 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,156 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,542 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,602 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,665 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,504 | 13.7 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 19 | #3,546 | 12.9 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,225 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,778 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,365 | 12.0 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,350 | 18.9 |
| 1969 | 45 | #1,869 | 26.7 |
| 1968 | 30 | #2,243 | 18.3 |
| 1967 | 34 | #2,036 | 20.6 |
| 1966 | 27 | #2,352 | 16.0 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,823 | 11.3 |
| 1964 | 32 | #2,148 | 16.9 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,856 | 10.4 |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,259 | 14.7 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,828 | 9.9 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,982 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,588 | 10.4 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,731 | 6.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,516 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,278 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,161 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,108 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 11 | #3,668 | 5.8 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,972 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tonyia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tonyia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tonyia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tonyia, and how old are they?
An estimated 511 Americans named Tonyia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 53 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 506 people named Tonyia (503 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 529 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% 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).
How common is the spelling Tonyia?
Tonyia is a less common spelling of Tonya: SSA has recorded 572 Tonyia and 120,856 Tonya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 252,076 babies since 1880, Tonyia is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 111 babies recorded by SSA was a Tonyia (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 Tonyia
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 Tonyia and names like it
- Compare Tonyia and TonyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sTonyia peaked in 1969.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tonyia since 1910.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Tonyia.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tonyia alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.