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Tondra vs Tonja

American parents have registered 6,994 Tonjas since 1880, against 632 Tondras. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tondra against Tonja, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tondra Tonja

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 62 years in which either name was published, Tonja for 61 years and Tondra for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Tondra Tonja
Total US births 6326,994
Most in one year 41512
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 5806,300
Median age today 5556
Peak year 19701967
Best rank 2,017th girls407th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19461940
Girls / boys 632 / 06,989 / 5

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tondra and Tonja.