Tawnya
Tawnya was last recorded in 2004, when 6 babies were given it; 4,943 Americans have been recorded with it between 1950 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,580 Americans named Tawnya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 46 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tawnya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tawnya mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tawnya is “a female given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tawnya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,904, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
289 babies in 1972, the peak
Tawnya peaked in 1972, when 289 girls were given it, #572 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 6 | #15,904 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,366 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 7 | #13,010 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,566 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 8 | #11,037 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,283 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,692 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,605 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,222 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,083 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 38 | #3,081 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 41 | #2,875 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 56 | #2,281 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 62 | #2,045 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 80 | #1,634 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 81 | #1,567 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 72 | #1,654 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 91 | #1,408 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 105 | #1,237 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 90 | #1,345 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 119 | #1,165 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 147 | #996 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 137 | #1,047 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 148 | #973 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 175 | #848 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 175 | #849 | 0.11 |
| 1976 | 229 | #671 | 0.16 |
| 1975 | 260 | #611 | 0.18 |
| 1974 | 275 | #578 | 0.19 |
| 1973 | 281 | #575 | 0.19 |
| 1972 | 289 | #572 | 0.19 |
| 1971 | 254 | #645 | 0.15 |
| 1970 | 249 | #654 | 0.14 |
| 1969 | 201 | #707 | 0.12 |
| 1968 | 189 | #710 | 0.12 |
| 1967 | 138 | #863 | 0.08 |
| 1966 | 101 | #1,040 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 100 | #1,054 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 93 | #1,144 | 0.05 |
| 1963 | 99 | #1,097 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 73 | #1,301 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 88 | #1,181 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 76 | #1,264 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 51 | #1,533 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,979 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 32 | #1,953 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,523 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,543 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 19 | #2,588 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,582 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,774 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,467 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #6,020 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tawnya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tawnya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tawnya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tawnya, and how old are they?
4,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 4,943 Americans ever recorded as Tawnya. The median Tawnya alive today is 52 years old; half are between 46 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 4,213 people named Tawnya (4,210 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,684 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 544 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,980 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,020 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 45 |
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 Tawnya born?
The states with the most babies named Tawnya are California, Pennsylvania and Ohio, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 811 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 315 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 295 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Washington | 269 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| Texas | 204 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Oregon | 143 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Utah | 122 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Illinois | 91 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 85 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Colorado | 79 | not ranked | 1.2× |
Where Tawnya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tawnya is most over-represented in Washington: since 1950 it was given 3.1 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 Tawnya 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 24,004 babies since 1880, Tawnya is the second most given (21% 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 Tawnya
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 Tawnya and names like it
- Compare Tawnya and TawanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTawnya peaked in 1972.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tawnya since 1910.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Tawnya.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Tawnya alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.