girls:
7k births since 1940
#1964 (66th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1969
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
7k births since 1940
#3223 (58th percentile)
The name Tonja is the #3,223 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,994 recorded births since 1940. This represents the 58.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,964 (65.6% percentile) for all time with 6,989 births since 1940. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1969.
Tonja first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1940 (1940 for girls and 1969 for boys). Birth data for Tonja is available in 62 out of the 66 years between 1940 and 2005 (62 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Tonja has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Tonja reached its peak popularity in 1967, achieving the 49.1% percentile (ranked #376) with 298 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 298 births per million (ranked 49.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
For boys, Tonja reached its peak popularity in 1969, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #660) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1969.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tonja".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Tonja. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.3% confident that Tonja is pronounced as TAHN-juh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TAWN-juh, at 16.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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