Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Tonda is a diminutive of Antonín. Antonín comes from Latin.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Czech usage, Tonda is a diminutive of Antonín.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1942. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tonda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,426
- 0 boys · 2,426 girls
- Most popular year
- 1964
- 134 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 10 in 1989. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 134 in 1964. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,068 as a first name in 2020; 175 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.
Tonda’s family of names
In Czech usage, Tonda is a diminutive of Antonín. In Czech usage, Tonda has a diminutive in Toník. In Czech usage, Tonda has a diminutive in Toníček.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Tonda
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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