Tonia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Shortened form of }Antonia, now quite widely used as an independent given name
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 38 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Tonia is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 3.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 6.4K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 9.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 430 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Shortened form of }Antonia, now quite widely used as an independent given name.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tonia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Tonia | 46 |
| US United States | — | 18,527 | 1 in 18K | 18K | Tonia | 430 |
| IT Italy | #681 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 3 | Tonia | 68 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 3 | Tonia | 142 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 11 | Tonia | 119 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 2,715 | 1 in 6.4K | 2.7K | Tonia | 24 |
| SG Singapore | #942 | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Tonia | 11 |
| NZ New Zealand | #740 | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 10 | Tonia | 36 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); the ca-statcan-baby-names register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Tonia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A short form of the female given name Antonia.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Catalan, first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of tondre
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, a diminutive of the female given name Antonina
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, partitive singular of Toni
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Tonia Nikolaidib. 1927GRGreek engraver (1927–2011)
- Tonia Marketakib. 1942GRGreek film director, screenwriter (1942–1994)
- Tonia Buxtonb. 1968GBBritish television presenter
- Tonia Mastrobuonib. 1971ITItalian journalist
- Tonia Kwiatkowskib. 1971USfigure skater
- Tonia Maria Zindelb. 1972CHSwiss actress
- Tonia Sotiropouloub. 1987GRGreek actress
- Tonia Couchb. 1989GBBritish diver
- Tonia Tisdellb. 1992LRLiberian footballer
- Tonia Papapetroub. 2000CYCypriot swimmer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)67 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 38 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Tonia a male or female name?
- Tonia is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Brazil (IBGE, 2022).
- What does the name Tonia mean, and where does it come from?
- Shortened form of }Antonia, now quite widely used as an independent given name. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Tonia?
- In the etymology graph, Antonia, Tonya and Toni are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Tonia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Tonia in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tonia.
- How common is the name Tonia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,527 people named Tonia in 2020, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Tonia compared with other names?
- In Italy, Tonia is the 681st most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/toniaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tonia” — the 681st most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.