Tawana
Tawana was last recorded in 2011, when 5 babies were given it; 6,545 Americans have been recorded with it between 1934 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,030 Americans named Tawana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 51 years old and half are between 46 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tawana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tawana?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,319, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
365 babies in 1974, the peak
Tawana peaked in 1974, when 365 girls were given it, #485 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #19,319 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,277 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,781 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,919 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,558 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,840 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,981 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,664 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,492 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,728 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 29 | #3,815 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,831 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,284 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,496 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,259 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,290 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 76 | #1,872 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 89 | #1,582 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 106 | #1,350 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 77 | #1,617 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 102 | #1,313 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 98 | #1,347 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 126 | #1,102 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 127 | #1,089 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 184 | #849 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 199 | #806 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 227 | #733 | 0.14 |
| 1979 | 269 | #650 | 0.17 |
| 1978 | 274 | #618 | 0.18 |
| 1977 | 303 | #575 | 0.20 |
| 1976 | 357 | #501 | 0.24 |
| 1975 | 346 | #516 | 0.24 |
| 1974 | 365 | #485 | 0.25 |
| 1973 | 328 | #518 | 0.22 |
| 1972 | 328 | #520 | 0.22 |
| 1971 | 306 | #575 | 0.18 |
| 1970 | 231 | #686 | 0.13 |
| 1969 | 208 | #691 | 0.12 |
| 1968 | 182 | #731 | 0.11 |
| 1967 | 138 | #862 | 0.08 |
| 1966 | 129 | #885 | 0.08 |
| 1965 | 118 | #943 | 0.07 |
| 1964 | 115 | #999 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 98 | #1,102 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 99 | #1,099 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 75 | #1,286 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 85 | #1,185 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 70 | #1,289 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 64 | #1,330 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 56 | #1,423 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 55 | #1,432 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 48 | #1,477 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 38 | #1,670 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,735 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,972 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 28 | #1,880 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,423 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,268 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,850 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,983 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 12 | #3,011 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,649 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,613 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,303 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #5,009 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,963 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,934 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,414 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tawana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tawana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tawana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tawana, and how old are they?
6,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 6,545 Americans ever recorded as Tawana. The median Tawana alive today is 51 years old; half are between 46 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 5,003 people named Tawana (4,985 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,174 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 22 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 787 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,840 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,310 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 76 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Tawana born?
The states with the most babies named Tawana are New York, Illinois and Texas, with 33% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 918 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 397 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 340 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 328 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 310 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Florida | 297 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 266 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| District of Columbia | 257 | not ranked | 6.4× |
| Ohio | 247 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Alabama | 224 | not ranked | 1.9× |
Where Tawana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tawana is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1934 it was given 6.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tawana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 25,917 babies since 1880, Tawana is the most given (25% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tawana
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tawana and names like it
- Compare Tawana and TawnyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTawana peaked in 1974.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tawana since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Tawana.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tawana alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.