Tawnia
Tawnia was last recorded in 1992, when 7 babies were given it; 632 Americans have been recorded with it between 1957 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tawnia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tawnia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tawnia is “a female given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tawnia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,621, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
40 babies in 1972, the peak
Tawnia peaked in 1972, when 40 girls were given it, #2,019 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 7 | #11,621 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,170 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,103 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,222 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,653 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,929 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,769 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,255 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,706 | 13.1 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,976 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 14 | #5,176 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,766 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,495 | 14.5 |
| 1979 | 14 | #5,071 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,765 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,915 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,522 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,806 | 18.5 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,825 | 17.7 |
| 1973 | 38 | #2,120 | 26.1 |
| 1972 | 40 | #2,019 | 26.3 |
| 1971 | 38 | #2,169 | 22.8 |
| 1970 | 35 | #2,263 | 20.0 |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,245 | 19.6 |
| 1968 | 36 | #2,021 | 21.9 |
| 1967 | 28 | #2,320 | 17.0 |
| 1966 | 27 | #2,351 | 16.0 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,674 | 12.5 |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,741 | 11.6 |
| 1963 | 16 | #3,317 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,469 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,989 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,207 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,510 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,032 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,916 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tawnia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tawnia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tawnia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tawnia, and how old are they?
An estimated 584 Americans named Tawnia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 48 and 58. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 588 people named Tawnia (586 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 598 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below 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 Tawnia?
Tawnia is a less common spelling of Tawnya: SSA has recorded 632 Tawnia and 4,943 Tawnya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 23,858 babies since 1880, Tawnia is the eighth most given (2.6% 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 Tawnia
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 Tawnia and names like it
- Compare Tawnia and TawnyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTawnia peaked in 1972.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tawnia since 1910.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Tawnia.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tawnia alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.