Tongan Girl Names
Explore names documented in Tongan naming traditions. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries. This focused selection includes only sourced names with matching U.S. birth records; many other names used in this tradition are absent from the U.S. data.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Documented Tongan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880. | 4,644#47 | Up 5 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Documented Tongan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880. | 1,276#245 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
Documented Tongan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1919. | 872#349 | Down 90 rank positions in five years | 2009 | ||
Documented Tongan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1882. | 294#903 | Up 94 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Documented Tongan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1941. | 35#4,140 | Down 875 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
Documented Tongan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1955. | 13#8,177 | Down 733 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
Documented Tongan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1983. | —Unranked | — | 2013 | ||
Documented Tongan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1960. | —Unranked | — | 1961 | ||
Documented Tongan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1998. | 6#13,290 | Down 1,080 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Documented Tongan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1982. | 6#14,743 | new | 2001 | ||
Documented Tongan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1986. | 5#16,867 | new | 2010 | ||
Documented Tongan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1985. | —Unranked | — | 2011 | ||
Documented Tongan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1922. | —Unranked | — | 1993 | ||
Documented Tongan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2004. | —Unranked | — | 2018 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.