Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Tona isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1924. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tona through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,427
- 0 boys · 1,427 girls
- Most popular year
- 1964
- 59 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,779 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,779 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 59 in 1964. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,411 as a first name in 2020; 340 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tona’s family of names
In Swedish usage, Tona has a conventional equivalent in the German form Toni. In Greek usage, Tona as a surname is a transliteration of Τόνα. In Greek usage, Tona as a surname is a transliteration of Τώνα.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 5
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Tona
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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