Tonatiuh
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- toh-nah-TEE-oo
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Tonatiuh is a boys' name, meaning “sun”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Tonatiuh mean?
Nahuatl, the Aztec name for the sun
“sun”
Tonatiuh was the Aztec sun god, traditionally identified with the face at the centre of the Aztec Sun Stone.
Is Tonatiuh a girl's or a boy's name?
Tonatiuh is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Tonatiuh in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Tonatiuh, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2011, with 22 boys. It first appears in the records in 1993.
2025 had fewer boys named Tonatiuh than any year since 2020.
Half of all the boys named Tonatiuh in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
Tonatiuh in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,252 |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,916 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,256 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,161 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,638 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,699 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 8 | #8,811 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,562 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,124 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,655 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,714 |
| 2011 | 22 | #4,354 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,032 |
| 2009 | 10 | #7,687 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,182 |
| 2007 | 14 | #5,898 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,521 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,292 |
| 2004 | 10 | #6,970 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,636 |
| 2002 | 15 | #4,913 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,236 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,832 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,460 |
| 1997 | 8 | #6,612 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,008 |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,785 |
| 1994 | 6 | #7,764 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,690 |
Nicknames for Tonatiuh
- Tona
Names like Tonatiuh
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Tru, Azariah, Thiago, Tadeo, Tatum, Alijah, Dakota, Kairo, Jasiah, Tripp, Kamari, Hezekiah
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, “Tonatiuh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tonatiuh, updated 20 October 2026.