Girl name#875 of girl names
Tonia
Pronounced T OW1 N IY0 AH0 (ARPABET)
- 3 syllables
- Peaked 1970
- 108 years in use
How popular is Tonia?
Tonia is a girls' name, and first appears in 1917. It has been given to 22,239 children — the 875th most common girls' name on record.
It is still recorded, but barely: 55 births across the past decade, against a peak of 1,429 in a single year. That peak was in 1970.
Characteristics
- 3 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- T OW1 N IY0 AH0
- Stress pattern:
- 100
- Syllables:
- 3
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Tonia
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Tonia
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Tonia?
- Tonia ranks 875th among girls' names in US records, with 22,239 births since 1917. Over the past decade it accounts for 55.
- Is Tonia a unisex name?
- No. Tonia is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Tonia most popular?
- 1970, when 1,429 children were given the name. It has been in use for 108 years and is still recorded as of 2024.