Tonga

girls:

159 births since 1953

#5557 (3rd percentile)

overall:

159 births since 1953

#7580 (2nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tonga".

1953 1986 19531986

Key Statistics

Total Births
159
Peak Births
17
Peak Year
1968
First Recorded
1953
Peak Percentile
1.6%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#693
Current Rank
#814
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Tonga

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Tonga. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 42.5% confident that Tonga is pronounced as TAHN-guh. The next most likely pronunciation is TAWNGG-uh, at 27.5% confidence.

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TAHN-guh (2 syllables)
Verified
42.5% confidence
T AA1 N G AH0
TAWNGG-uh (2 syllables)
27.5% confidence
T AO1 N G G AH0
TAHNGG-uh (2 syllables)
17.5% confidence
T AA1 N G G AH0
TAWN-guh (2 syllables)
12.5% confidence
T AO1 N G AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Tonga. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Tonga, please vote using the thumbs up button.

TAHN-juh (2 syllables)
7 names 10k births
T AA1 N JH AH0
TAN-guh (2 syllables)
1 name 404 births
T AE1 N G AH0

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like T AA1 N G AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.