Tonya

Tonya was the #8,860 girls' name in the US in 2025 (11 babies).

Tonya as a girl’s name

  • US
  • England & Wales
  • Scotland
  • Ireland
  • Canada
Tonya as a girl’s name, US, England & Wales, Scotland, Ireland, CanadaBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1880–2025, for US, England & Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Canada. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020US
Tonya as a girl’s name, US, England & Wales, Scotland, Ireland, CanadaBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1880–2025, for US, England & Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Canada. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.02.557.5101880192019602000
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.
Show the numbers
YearUSEngland & WalesScotlandIrelandCanada
2025#8,860 (11)————
2024#6,394 (18)————
2023#11,169 (8)————
2022#7,631 (14)————
2021#5,955 (20)————
2020#6,923 (16)————
2019#8,597 (12)————
2018#5,454 (23)————
2017#5,517 (23)————
2016#6,663 (18)————
2015#4,725 (29)————
2014#5,310 (25)————
2013#5,143 (26)————
2012#4,296 (34)————
2011#3,781 (40)————

The tide so far

  • Peaked in the US in 1973 at #36.
  • Falling over the last five years.
  • First recorded in the US in 1923.

How common is it?

about 1 in 140,000 baby girls in the published US list for 2025.

In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.

Next year

On its recent trend, Tonya is likely to keep falling in the US in 2026: about 1 in 160,000 baby girls. Likely range 1 in 74,000 to 1 in 330,000.

Estimate, not an official figure. How we estimate.

Spellings

Official statistics count each spelling separately, so we show them side by side rather than adding them up.

SpellingWhereSexLatest rankBabies
TonyaCanadaGirls—too few
TonyaEngland & WalesGirls—too few
TonyaIrelandGirls—too few
TonyaNorthern IrelandGirls—too few
TonyaScotlandGirls—too few
TonyaUSGirls#8,86011
TonyaUSBoys—too few