Tawana — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tawana

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,545 babies named Tawana between 1934 and 2011, spanning 78 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tawana currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 1974, when 365 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tawana performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 3,107 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Tawana shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 918 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Tawana in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tawana in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,545 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.