Feminine dossier · first seen 1940

Tonja

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Tonja
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1967

Peak rank proxy

512

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Gen X

1940Peak 19672024

Peak year

1967

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

6,989

Tonja has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Gen X naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1967, when 512 girls were named Tonja.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 6,989 Americans have been named Tonja and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1940.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGen X

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

1967512 girls named Tonja

20240 (extinct) girls named Tonja

Curious about the history of Tonja? Browse books about the name Tonja on Amazon.