Tawnie
Tawnie was last recorded in 2007, when 6 babies were given it; 871 Americans have been recorded with it between 1951 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tawnie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tawnie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,433, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
45 babies in 1988, the peak
Tawnie peaked in 1988, when 45 girls were given it, #2,437 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | #17,433 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,330 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,896 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,660 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,616 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,401 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,587 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,486 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,402 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,494 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 13 | #7,239 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,862 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,604 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,218 | 20.2 |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,146 | 20.5 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,205 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 43 | #2,779 | 22.9 |
| 1990 | 38 | #3,013 | 20.0 |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,036 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 45 | #2,437 | 25.3 |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,513 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,633 | 14.0 |
| 1985 | 31 | #3,000 | 18.0 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,155 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,795 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,760 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,942 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,601 | 13.9 |
| 1979 | 19 | #4,036 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,068 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,631 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 10 | #6,001 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,342 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,696 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,020 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,895 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,954 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,308 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,303 | 10.7 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,101 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,938 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,723 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,927 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,070 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,618 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,763 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,590 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,129 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,935 | 2.5 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,533 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,135 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tawnie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tawnie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tawnie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tawnie, and how old are they?
An estimated 831 Americans named Tawnie 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 816 people named Tawnie (815 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 842 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% 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).
Where are babies named Tawnie born?
The states with the most babies named Tawnie are California, Utah and Washington, with 94% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah and Washington are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 134 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Utah | 6 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Washington | 6 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Tawnie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tawnie is most over-represented in California: since 1951 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tawnie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Tawnie?
Tawnie is a less common spelling of Tawny: SSA has recorded 871 Tawnie and 4,228 Tawny since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,792 babies since 1880, Tawnie is the fifth most given (5.9% 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 Tawnie
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 Tawnie and names like it
- Compare Tawnie and TawnyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTawnie peaked in 1988.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tawnie since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Tawnie.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tawnie alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.