Tonantzin
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- toh-NAHN-tseen
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Tonantzin is a girls' name, meaning “our revered mother”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Tonantzin mean?
Nahuatl, title of an Aztec mother goddess
“our revered mother”
Tonantzin was honoured at Tepeyac, the hill where the Virgin of Guadalupe is said to have appeared in 1531.
Is Tonantzin a girl's or a boy's name?
Tonantzin is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Tonantzin in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Tonantzin, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 24 girls. It first appears in the records in 1978.
2025 had fewer girls named Tonantzin than any year since 2008.
Half of all the girls named Tonantzin in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Tonantzin in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,300 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,868 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,541 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,227 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,828 |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,887 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,240 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,807 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,423 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,748 |
Names like Tonantzin
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Emerson Remington Madisson Adalynn Aylin Teagan Addison Nyomi Madilyn Ximena Madison Elowyn
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Tonantzin: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tonantzin, updated 20 October 2026.