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Tonya

proper nounattested in dialogue

A diminutive of the female given names Antonina or Antonia, from Russian

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the female given names Antonina or Antonia, from Russian

Etymology

Phonetic rendering of Russian То́ня (Tónja), an informal pet form of Антони́на (Antonína, “Antonina”).

Forms

plural
Tonyas
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).