Tawanda — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tawanda

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,058 babies named Tawanda between 1944 and 2003, spanning 60 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tawanda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2003. The name reached its historical peak in 1977, when 260 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tawanda performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 2,141 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Tawanda shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 314 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Tawanda in 21 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tawanda 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 4,058 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.