Meaning and history
Tonya is an English diminutive of Antonia or a Russian diminutive of Antonina, and its use in the English-speaking world has likely been boosted by the similar name Tanya.
20062006: 45 births, rank #3,505
2007: 55 births, rank #3,125
2008: 58 births, rank #2,995
2009: 44 births, rank #3,619
2010: 49 births, rank #3,306
20112011: 40 births, rank #3,781
2012: 34 births, rank #4,296
2013: 26 births, rank #5,143
2014: 25 births, rank #5,310
2015: 29 births, rank #4,725
20162016: 18 births, rank #6,663
2017: 23 births, rank #5,517
2018: 23 births, rank #5,454
2019: 12 births, rank #8,597
2020: 16 births, rank #6,923
20212021: 20 births, rank #5,955
2022: 14 births, rank #7,631
2023: 8 births, rank #11,169
2024: 18 births, rank #6,394
20252025: 11 births, rank #8,860
Tonya moved from #900 to #906 for girls between 1996 and 1997. Its highest annual birth count came in 1972, with 7,244 births.