Tawnie — girls' name
871 babies named Tawnie in U.S. Social Security records since 1951, with the highest year being 1988. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
30% of everyone ever named Tawnie was born in this single decade.
45 babies were named Tawnie in 1988 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tawnie
The Social Security Administration has registered 871 babies named Tawnie between 1951 and 2007, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tawnie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2007. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 45 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tawnie performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 262 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Tawnie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 134 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah and Washington. In total, SSA state-level files list Tawnie in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tawnie 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 871 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.
Tawnie at a glance
Last recorded 2007Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tawnie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2007–1951
- Peak year (1988)
- 45
- Annual births at peak — across 57 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2007.
871 total births across 57 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1988 with 45 births in a single year.
Tawnie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 262 births that decade — 30% of Tawnie's all-time total
Tawnie decade highlights
- Peak decade 262 births
- Runner-up 261 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Tawnie's strongest decade
262 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 30% of all-time use.
Tawnie by state
Where Tawnie concentrates geographically — total births since 1951
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 134 | 15.4% |
| #2 | Utah | | 6 | 0.7% |
| #3 | Washington | | 6 | 0.7% |
| #4 | Arizona | | 5 | 0.6% |
| #5 | Michigan | | 5 | 0.6% |
134 of 871 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 5 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 15.4% of nationwide
- Utah 0.7% of nationwide
- Washington 0.7% of nationwide
- Arizona 0.6% of nationwide
- Michigan 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 5 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 15.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1951–2007 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.