Tawney
Tawney was last recorded in 2005, when 8 babies were given it; 575 Americans have been recorded with it between 1948 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tawney by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tawney?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,894, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 1988, the peak
Tawney peaked in 1988, when 43 girls were given it, #2,530 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 8 | #12,894 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,659 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,841 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,708 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,853 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,401 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,493 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,961 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 11 | #8,078 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,336 | 13.6 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 24 | #4,362 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,235 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,953 | 14.6 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,429 | 17.1 |
| 1990 | 27 | #3,893 | 14.2 |
| 1989 | 18 | #5,034 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,530 | 24.1 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,586 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 21 | #4,013 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,326 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,195 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,792 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,515 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,349 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,262 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,649 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,530 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,839 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,590 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,947 | 6.9 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,365 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,307 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,383 | 3.6 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,986 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,722 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,794 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,425 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,514 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,827 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,352 | 13.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,206 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,031 | 3.0 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,186 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tawney a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tawney has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tawney: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tawney, and how old are they?
An estimated 547 Americans named Tawney and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 33 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 574 people named Tawney (563 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 555 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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 Tawney?
Tawney is a less common spelling of Tawny: SSA has recorded 575 Tawney and 4,228 Tawny since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,792 babies since 1880, Tawney is the eighth most given (3.9% 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 Tawney
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 Tawney and names like it
- Compare Tawney and TawnyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTawney peaked in 1988.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tawney since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Tawney.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tawney alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.