Tawnee
Tawnee was last recorded in 2013, when 9 babies were given it; 778 Americans have been recorded with it between 1960 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tawnee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tawnee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,867, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
51 babies in 1990, the peak
Tawnee peaked in 1990, when 51 girls were given it, #2,429 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 9 | #11,867 | 5.1 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,183 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,278 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,783 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,920 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,658 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,615 | 6.0 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,293 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,693 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,192 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 17 | #6,041 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,841 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,293 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,087 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,695 | 16.8 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,668 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,952 | 14.6 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,428 | 17.1 |
| 1990 | 51 | #2,429 | 26.9 |
| 1989 | 49 | #2,398 | 26.6 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,406 | 25.8 |
| 1987 | 38 | #2,648 | 21.9 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,632 | 14.0 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,161 | 16.9 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,720 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,670 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,924 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,547 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,131 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,931 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,189 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,529 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,869 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,891 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,733 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,541 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,495 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,639 | 10.8 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,425 | 10.9 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,413 | 5.3 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,743 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,426 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,970 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,513 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,992 | 6.1 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,772 | 6.4 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,641 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tawnee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tawnee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tawnee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tawnee, and how old are they?
An estimated 748 Americans named Tawnee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 32 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 677 people named Tawnee (671 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 756 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Tawnee?
Tawnee is a less common spelling of Tawny: SSA has recorded 778 Tawnee and 4,228 Tawny since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,792 babies since 1880, Tawnee is the sixth most given (5.3% 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 Tawnee
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 Tawnee and names like it
- Compare Tawnee and TawnyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTawnee peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tawnee since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Tawnee.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tawnee alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.