Tonja

Where Tonja comes from

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

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1940
    First appearance
    #4,349 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1960
    Tonja Walker born
    American actress
  3. 1967
    Peak, #407
    512 babies named Tonja — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1974
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #666.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Tonya
Namesakes
  • Tonja Walker · American actress, born 1960

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.