Tonya is an
English female
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...
. The name originated as a short form of
Antonia with influence from the
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas
**Spanish cuisine
**Spanish history
**Spanish culture
...
form
Toña. It can be found throughout the English-speaking world but is most common in the United States. The popularity of the name has been influenced by its conflation with the unrelated name
Tanya, which originated as a diminutive form of
Tatiana
Tatiana (or Tatianna, also romanized as Tatyana, Tatjana, Tatijana, etc.) is a female name of Sabine-Roman origin that became widespread in Eastern Europe.
Origin
Tatiana is a feminine, diminutive derivative of the Sabine—and later Latinâ ...
.
Other spellings with similar derivations include
Tonja and
Tonia. The variant form
LaTonya is particularly associated with
African-American
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. ...
women.
People called Tonya
Entertainment
*
Tonya Cooley (born 1980), American model
*
Tonya Crews (born 1938), American model
*
Tonya Crowe (born 1971), American actress
*
Tonya Kay, American actress and dancer
*
Tonya Pinkins
Tonya Pinkins is an American actress and filmmaker. Her award-winning debut feature film ''Red Pill'' was an official selection at the 2021 Pan African Film Festival, won the Best Black Lives Matter Feature and Best First Feature at The Mykonos ...
, American actress
*
Tonya Williams (born 1958), Canadian actress
Sports
*
Tonya Burns, American basketball player and coach
*
Tonya Edwards
Tonya LaRay Edwards (born March 13, 1968) is an American retired professional basketball player born in Flint, Michigan, who was most recently an assistant coach of the Chicago Sky in the WNBA. She was previously head coach of the Alcorn State ...
(born 1968), American basketball coach
*
Tonya Harding
Tonya Maxene Price (née Harding; born November 12, 1970) is an American former figure skater and boxer, and reality television personality.
Born in Portland, Oregon, Harding was raised by her mother, who enrolled her in ice skating lessons w ...
(born 1970), American ice skater
*
Tonya Verbeek (born 1977), Canadian wrestler
*
Tonya Washington (born 1977), American basketball player
Other fields
*
Tonya Hurley, American writer and director
*
Tonya Knight (born 1966), American bodybuilder
*
Tonya Matthews, American biomedical engineer
*
Tonya Rush, American politician
*
Tonya Schuitmaker (born 1968), American politician
References
See also
*
Tona (name)
*
Tanya (name)
__NOTOC__
Tanya or Tania is the Slavic hypocoristic of Tatiana. It is commonly used as an independent given name in the English-speaking world. Patrick Hanks & Flavia Hodges, 1990, ''A Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, . ...
*
Tania (name)
*
Tanja
Tanja () is a feminine given name. It may refer to:
Mononyms
*''Tanja'' (born 1983), Russian-Estonian singer, also known as Tanja Mihhailova
Given name
*Tanja Andrejeva (born 1978), Macedonian handball player
*Tanja Bogosavljević (born 1989), ...
(name)
*
Tonda (name)
*
Tonja (name)
*
Tonje (name)
*
Tonia (name)
*
Tonka (name)
*
Tonye
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tonya (given name)
English feminine given names
Feminine given names