Tonia

Where Tonia comes from

The dictionaries list Tonia as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1917
    First appearance
    #2,693 among girls, 11 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1971
    Peak, #211
    1,425 babies named Tonia — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1978
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #376.
  4. 1987
    Tonia Sotiropoulou born
    Greek actress
  5. 1989
    Tonia Couch born
    British diver
In the dictionary
  • A female given name
  • A diminutive of the female given name Antonia
  • A female given name, variant of Tonya: Phonetic rendering of Ukrainian То́ня (Tónja), an informal diminutive form of Антоні́на (Antonína, “Antonina”).
Namesakes
  • Tonia Sotiropoulou · Greek actress, born 1987
  • Tonia Couch · British diver, born 1989
  • Tonia Tisdell · Liberian footballer, born 1992
  • Tonia Marketaki · Greek film director, screenwriter, 1942–1994
  • Tonia Maria Zindel · Swiss actress, born 1972

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.