Tonya

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)

Popularity Trends

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

1923 2023 19232023

Key Statistics

Total Births
120,393
Peak Births
7,244
Peak Year
1972
First Recorded
1923
Peak Percentile
95.3%
Current Percentile
0.2%
Peak Rank
#36
Current Rank
#945
Female statistics
Total Births
435
Peak Births
35
Peak Year
1974
First Recorded
1962
Peak Percentile
4.6%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#613
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Tonya

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

Our model is 53.2% confident that Tonya is pronounced as TAH-nyuh. The next most likely pronunciation is TOH-nyuh, at 23.4% confidence.

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TOH-nyuh (2 syllables)
23.4% confidence
T OW1 N Y AH0
TAW-nyuh (2 syllables)
17.0% confidence
T AO1 N Y AH0
TOH-nee-uh (3 syllables)
6.4% confidence
T OW1 N IY0 AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

TAH-nee-uh (3 syllables)
9 names 39.5k births
T AA1 N IY0 AH0
TAW-nee-uh (3 syllables)
3 names 1k births
T AO1 N IY0 AH0

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 Y 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.