# Tonia (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tonia/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 22,247 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 53 / 22,194 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 46, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 18 | 7,391 |
| 2009 | 18 | 7,317 |
| 2010 | 17 | 7,486 |
| 2011 | 5 | 19,378 |
| 2012 | 15 | 8,188 |
| 2013 | 11 | 10,195 |
| 2014 | 9 | 11,864 |
| 2015 | 7 | 14,378 |
| 2016 | 14 | 8,358 |
| 2017 | 10 | 10,639 |
| 2018 | 6 | 15,523 |
| 2019 | 8 | 12,357 |
| 2020 | 6 | 14,952 |
| 2024 | 5 | 17,484 |
| 2025 | 5 | 17,063 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 6 | 4,001 |
| 1967 | 6 | 3,938 |
| 1968 | 6 | 4,105 |
| 1971 | 6 | 4,873 |
| 1972 | 6 | 4,957 |
| 1973 | 6 | 5,043 |
| 1974 | 5 | 5,945 |
| 1976 | 7 | 4,887 |
| 1977 | 5 | 6,791 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 4 | 3,126 |
| 1997 | 6 | 2,411 |
| 1998 | 4 | 3,142 |
| 1999 | 4 | 3,225 |
| 2000 | 6 | 2,416 |
| 2001 | 3 | 3,998 |
| 2002 | 4 | 3,409 |
| 2003 | 3 | 4,373 |
| 2004 | 3 | 4,598 |
| 2010 | 3 | 5,707 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5,876 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |

## People named Tonia

- Tônia Carrero, Brazilian actress of theater, television and cinema (1922–2018)
- Tonia Couch, British diver

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.