Baby name
Tonja
/TON · yah/
Meaning
“From the Roman Antonius family”
Scandinavian and German variant of Tonya or Antonia; the j-spelling marks it as distinctly Nordic or Central European.
How it ages.
Feels of its era; firmly associated with the 1970s-80s in Northern Europe.
The cultural moment.
Common in Norway and Germany during the 1970s and 1980s, now rare for newborns.