Tawny
Tawny was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 4,228 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,010 Americans named Tawny and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 34 and 48.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tawny by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tawny?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,433, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
217 babies in 1989, the peak
Tawny peaked in 1989, when 217 girls were given it, #857 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #17,433 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,999 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,440 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,489 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,780 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,872 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #19,027 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,828 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 13 | #9,095 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,174 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 11 | #10,607 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,715 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,686 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,333 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,935 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,189 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,717 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,602 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,194 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,170 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 60 | #2,433 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,454 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 48 | #2,655 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 71 | #1,988 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 85 | #1,723 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 113 | #1,421 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 145 | #1,198 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 142 | #1,228 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 151 | #1,163 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 180 | #1,010 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 217 | #857 | 0.12 |
| 1988 | 186 | #917 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 152 | #1,024 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 139 | #1,082 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 141 | #1,055 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 151 | #961 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 146 | #996 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 164 | #923 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 127 | #1,101 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 119 | #1,149 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 116 | #1,152 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 89 | #1,346 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 64 | #1,658 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 66 | #1,548 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 40 | #2,165 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,201 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,448 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 43 | #1,939 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,998 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 61 | #1,582 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 50 | #1,725 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 39 | #1,939 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,780 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 48 | #1,631 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 47 | #1,654 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 41 | #1,862 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 55 | #1,517 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 76 | #1,276 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 68 | #1,358 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 44 | #1,723 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 20 | #2,666 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 28 | #2,158 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 29 | #2,063 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 23 | #2,378 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 23 | #2,334 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,311 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,091 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,360 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,346 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,765 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,202 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,575 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,984 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tawny a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tawny has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 73 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tawny: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tawny, and how old are they?
4,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 4,228 Americans ever recorded as Tawny. The median Tawny alive today is 40 years old; half are between 34 and 48.
The 2020 Census counted 3,737 people named Tawny (3,712 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,054 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 408 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 860 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,240 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 449 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 47 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Tawny born?
The states with the most babies named Tawny are California, Washington and Texas, with 73% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,257 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Washington | 116 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 115 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 74 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 54 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 54 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Utah | 53 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Oregon | 49 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 47 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 44 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Tawny is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tawny is most over-represented in California: since 1947 it was given 2.4 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 Tawny with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 20,762 babies since 1880, Tawny is the third most given (20% 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 Tawny
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 Tawny and names like it
- Compare Tawny and TawanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTawny peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tawny since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Tawny.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tawny alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.