How rare is the name Tonja?

5,679 people in the United States have the first name Tonja, about 1 in 53,184. It ranks #3,602 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

TONJA

#3,602

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,679
About
1 in 53,184
This common or more
82.7%
Who bears it

Of the 5,679 people named Tonja, 60.7% reported their origin as White, 31.3% as Black and 4.6% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Tonja peaked in 1967, when 512 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19402005
Peak year
1967
Births that year
512
In 2005
6 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 6,994 babies have been given the name since 1940. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Tonja by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #956. The largest share of babies named Tonja, 67.1%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1940s#4,942104
1950s#2,323533
1960s#9563,357
1970s#1,1682,414
1980s#3,776435
1990s#11,260124
2000s#30,15427
Silent Generation 1928–450.5%
Baby boom 1946–6425.1%
Generation X 1965–8067.1%
Millennials 1981–966.6%
Generation Z 1997–120.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Tonja is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tonja has been most common in Alabama (2.5×), Georgia (2×), and Mississippi (1.9×), and least common in New Jersey (0.27×).

5,087 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Tonja

1 other first name also has 5,679 people.

#3,602 Raheem · 5,679

Either side of Tonja

#3,601 Tyron · 5,680#3,602 Raheem · 5,679#3,604 Dangelo · 5,678#3,604 Men · 5,678

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Tonja, most common first.

#25,331 Tonga · 375#30,536 Tonjia · 285#46,195 Tonka · 145#50,139 Tonjua · 121#51,981 Tonji · 110

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