girls:
120.4k births since 1923
#321 (94th percentile)
boys:
435 births since 1962
#4151 (9th percentile)
overall:
120.8k births since 1923
#601 (92nd percentile)
The name Tonya is the #601 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 120,828 recorded births since 1923. This represents the 92.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #321 (94.4% percentile) for all time with 120,393 births since 1923. For boys, it ranks #4,151 (9.4% percentile) for all time with 435 births since 1962.
Tonya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1923 (1923 for girls and 1962 for boys). Birth data for Tonya is available in 93 out of the 101 years between 1923 and 2023 (93 years for girls and 25 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 Tonya has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Tonya reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 95.3% percentile (ranked #36) with 4,492 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 4,623 births per million (ranked 95.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1974, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Tonya ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 0.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Tonya reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 4.6% percentile (ranked #623) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 21 births per million (ranked 4.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1986.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tonya".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Tonya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.2% confident that Tonya is pronounced as TAH-nyuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TOH-nyuh, at 23.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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