Entry № 10670 · English origin

Tonya Tonya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TON-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Priceless (Tonya Harding, Olympic figure skater; I, Tonya)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "priceless (tonya harding, olympic figure skater; i, tonya)".

Tonya is an American diminutive of Antonia — from the Latin gens name Antonius ("priceless, praiseworthy") — also influenced by the Russian Tonya (short for Antonina). The story was dramatized in I, Tonya (2017), for which Allison Janney won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Margot Robbie (as Harding) was nominated for Best Actress. Tonya Mosley — co-host of NPR's Fresh Air. Tonya in Doctor Zhivago is Tonya Gromeko, Zhivago's wife.

Priceless. Tonya Harding was the first American woman to land a triple Axel in competition (1991).

The name in its native script.

Tonya
Transliteration
Tonya
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɑːn.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tonya stands.

Tonya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Tonyas before her.

Real people
Tonya Harding
American figure skater.
born 1970
Tonya Lewis Lee
American producer.
born 1966
Tonya Pinkins
American Tony actress.
born 1962
In fiction
Tonya Gromeko
Doctor Zhivago.
1957

Names connected to Tonya.

The number behind Tonya.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tonya reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.