Tonia
Tonia is an Italian and Spanish feminine given name that is a diminutive form of Antonia as a feminine form of Tonino and Tonio that is used in Italy, Spain, parts of the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Western Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, and the Falkland…
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Meaning & Origin of Tonia
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Tonia is an Italian and Spanish feminine given name that is a diminutive form of Antonia as a feminine form of Tonino and Tonio that is used in Italy, Spain, parts of the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Western Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, and the Falkland…
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
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The Story of Tonia
Tonia first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1917, with 11 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1970: 1,429 births, good for #219 nationwide. About 45% of every Tonia on record arrived during the 1970s, its defining decade. Tonia last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 22K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Tonia
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About the name Tonia
Tonia is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1917 and has accumulated 22K births in the dataset. Tonia's peak popularity came in 1970 when it ranked #219. Use the chart and map above to compare Tonia's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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