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Tonda

Girls' name

Diminutive of Antonín

Tonda has been given to 2,426 babies in the U.S. since 1942. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1964, with 134 recorded.

Babies named Tonda, 1989

1 in 384,000

Tonda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tonda: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Antonín

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tonda means

Tonda is a diminutive of Antonín.

Origin, language, and formation

Tonda is used in Czech.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Antonín.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Tonda is pronounced [ˈtonda].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,426 girls were recorded with the name Tonda between 1942 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 134 in 1964; its best national rank was #873 in 1965.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tonda?

Tonda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1989, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1989
1 in 384,000
10 of 3,842,268 births
Among girls only
1 in 184,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1989
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
266,327 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tonda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1989 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 266,327 children born in 1989 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tonda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tondas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tonda was born before 1964 — so the typical Tonda is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
44.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,254
People you could plausibly meet
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1960s — 44.7% of all recorded uses (1,085).

Is Tonda rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1964 (134)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#873
1965

Spellings of Tonda

Tonda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 35.7% against Tonda's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tonda is used

Across 1910–2025, Tonda was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 89,023 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 25,000
  2. 2Ohio1 in 25,000
  3. 3Indiana1 in 33,333
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 50,000
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 50,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tonda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Tonda

People whose public names include Tonda, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tonda by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#873
1965
Peak year
1964
134 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
2,426
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tonda

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KendaTonaTonieHindaRandaBrindaTonyToniaTonjaTonnaTonitaMandaWondaTonishaVandaLondaMindaBriandaFondaTonikaCindaRendaTonetteGlynda

Names with a curve like Tonda

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tonda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

PenniDelindaDawneTariDeeannLoryJeanmarieDeedeeGwynBeckiTamieDannette

Sibling names for Tonda

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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