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Tonjua vs Tonya

American parents have registered 120,856 Tonyas since 1880, against 114 Tonjuas. Tonya is still ahead, with 11 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tonjua against Tonya, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tonjua Tonya

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Tonya has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1923 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1964, when Tonjua had 59 and Tonya had 2,704.

Side by side

  Tonjua Tonya
Total US births 114120,856
Most in one year 597,273
Babies in 2025 under 511
Estimated living today 100112,000
Median age today 6152
Peak year 19641972
Best rank 1,470th girls37th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked8,860th
First recorded 19631923
Girls / boys 114 / 0120,421 / 435

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tonjuas alive today are over 61; half the Tonyas are over 52. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tonjua and Tonya.