How Many People Are Named Tonia?

20,152

people named Tonia are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 16,960 people in the US has this name

Based on 22,247 babies named Tonia in Social Security records from 1917 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,618

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#869

See the top 100

Peak Year

1971

1,431 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: TAHN-yə
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of TONYA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Tonia in English. Counting Tonia and these spellings together, about 267,808 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.8%
Male
0.2%

Almost all of the babies given the name Tonia (99.8%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Tonia alive today is about 53 years old, and 78% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 49 and 58 in 2025.

Under 30 568
2.8%
30 to 59 15,676
77.8%
60 and over 3,909
19.4%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Tonia first appears in the records in 1917 and was given most often in 1971, to 1,431 babies. In 2025, 5 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1917 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Tonia has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #212, in 1971. In 2025 it ranked #17,058.

Girls
Rank in 2025#17,058
Best rank#212 (1971)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#263 in the 1970s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Tonia alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Tonia were born in Ohio than in any other state: about 1,312 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Tonia was given 1.9 times as often in North Carolina, 1.8 times in Tennessee and 1.6 times in Kentucky.

Ohio 1,312
California 1,227
New York 1,154
Texas 1,050
Michigan 1,015
North Carolina 879
Illinois 795
Pennsylvania 690
Georgia 677
Florida 666
Tennessee 616
Louisiana 567
Indiana 565
Virginia 470
Kentucky 460
Missouri 432
Alabama 421
South Carolina 359
Maryland 351
Wisconsin 313
New Jersey 309
Minnesota 299
Mississippi 293
Iowa 252
Arkansas 230
Washington 219
Oklahoma 211
West Virginia 197
Oregon 193
Colorado 162
Kansas 144
Massachusetts 138
Arizona 128
District of Columbia 119
Nebraska 112
South Dakota 69
Maine 58
Utah 57
Connecticut 55
Idaho 52
North Dakota 50
New Mexico 38
New Hampshire 27
Vermont 17
Alaska 9
Wyoming 9
Montana 8
Nevada 6
Rhode Island 6

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