Twana
Twana was given to 5 girls in 2025, #17,074 among girls’ names; 2,229 Americans have been recorded with it since 1938 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,000 Americans named Twana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 50 and 62.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Twana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Twana?
#17,074 among girls’ names, 2025
Twana entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #17,074 in 2025.
119 babies in 1974, the peak
Twana peaked in 1974, when 119 girls were given it, #1,012 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,074 | 3.1 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,456 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,093 | 6.2 |
| 1992 | 11 | #8,031 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,214 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,441 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,998 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,259 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,762 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,740 | 7.6 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 16 | #4,847 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,417 | 14.8 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,545 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,825 | 19.5 |
| 1981 | 45 | #2,262 | 27.0 |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,188 | 28.3 |
| 1979 | 48 | #2,111 | 29.9 |
| 1978 | 68 | #1,595 | 44.4 |
| 1977 | 94 | #1,274 | 61.3 |
| 1976 | 95 | #1,203 | 64.8 |
| 1975 | 113 | #1,053 | 77.5 |
| 1974 | 119 | #1,012 | 81.1 |
| 1973 | 87 | #1,225 | 59.7 |
| 1972 | 108 | #1,071 | 71.0 |
| 1971 | 113 | #1,073 | 67.9 |
| 1970 | 80 | #1,329 | 45.8 |
| 1969 | 97 | #1,128 | 57.5 |
| 1968 | 70 | #1,333 | 42.7 |
| 1967 | 62 | #1,415 | 37.6 |
| 1966 | 69 | #1,311 | 40.8 |
| 1965 | 83 | #1,186 | 47.0 |
| 1964 | 73 | #1,318 | 38.5 |
| 1963 | 66 | #1,371 | 34.2 |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,729 | 22.4 |
| 1961 | 49 | #1,625 | 24.3 |
| 1960 | 68 | #1,347 | 33.6 |
| 1959 | 39 | #1,790 | 19.3 |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,853 | 17.9 |
| 1957 | 42 | #1,677 | 20.5 |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,997 | 14.9 |
| 1955 | 27 | #2,102 | 13.8 |
| 1954 | 28 | #2,021 | 14.4 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,065 | 13.8 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,497 | 10.2 |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,469 | 10.0 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,406 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,839 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,622 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,683 | 5.6 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,183 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,536 | 4.5 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,381 | 5.0 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,307 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Twana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Twana 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 Twana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Twana, and how old are they?
2,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 2,229 Americans ever recorded as Twana. The median Twana alive today is 55 years old; half are between 50 and 62.
The 2020 Census counted 1,744 people named Twana (1,718 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,063 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 11 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 497 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,260 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 233 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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 Twana born?
The states with the most babies named Twana are Texas, New York and Illinois, with 45% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 163 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 151 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 80 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 63 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 57 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 43 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 38 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 37 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 37 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Alabama | 34 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Twana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Twana is most over-represented in Texas: since 1938 it was given 1.1 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 Twana 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 15,218 babies since 1880, Twana is the third most given (15% 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 Twana
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 Twana and names like it
- Compare Twana and TawanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTwana peaked in 1974.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Twana since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Twana.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Twana alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.