Boys' name · since 1978
Tawon
42 babies named Tawon in U.S. Social Security records since 1978, with the highest year being 1989. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #23,447 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 42
- born since 1978
- 1980s
- peak decade
42 boys have been named Tawon since 1978, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Tawon has 42 recorded births among boys since 1978, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1978 to 2007.
- #23,447 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- 42 born since 1978
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Tawon ranks #23,447 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 42 born since 1978, peaking in the 1980s.
- #23,447 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 42
- born since 1978
- 1980s
- peak decade
Tawon's 42 recorded births place it above 48.41% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Tawon's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Tawon's full recorded timeline at 1989, 62% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 38% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 1980, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1989 peak of 8 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Tawon popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1978–2007
- Peak year (1989)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 30 years of records
Tawon by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (18 births, 43% of the file).
1980s was Tawon's strongest decade.
18 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 43% of all-time use.
Tawon births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 6
1970s
6 births
- 1980s
1980s
18 births
- 1990s
1990s
13 births
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 18 births (43% of all-time use).
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- Tawon's decade-level peak was the 1980s (18 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2000s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Tawon: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1989)
Similar record span (~29 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1978–2007 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Tawon draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.