Tywan
Tywan was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,883 among boys’ names; 1,280 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,220 Americans named Tywan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 23 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tywan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tywan?
#11,883 among boys’ names, 2025
Tywan fell from #7,029 in 2015 to #11,883 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.3 to 3.5 per million.
58 babies in 1978, the peak
Tywan peaked in 1978, when 58 boys were given it, #1,176 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,883 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 6 | #12,236 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,717 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,756 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 6 | #12,029 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,895 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 6 | #12,025 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,596 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 6 | #12,129 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 15 | #6,029 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #7,029 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,515 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,211 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,223 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,916 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,230 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,403 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 23 | #4,382 | 11.3 |
| 2007 | 26 | #3,998 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 28 | #3,679 | 13.6 |
| 2005 | 33 | #3,162 | 16.5 |
| 2004 | 22 | #4,118 | 11.1 |
| 2003 | 24 | #3,717 | 12.1 |
| 2002 | 38 | #2,597 | 19.6 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,111 | 25.7 |
| 2000 | 44 | #2,249 | 22.4 |
| 1999 | 35 | #2,552 | 18.2 |
| 1998 | 41 | #2,228 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 22 | #3,339 | 11.7 |
| 1996 | 24 | #3,097 | 12.7 |
| 1995 | 24 | #3,006 | 12.6 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,755 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 26 | #2,777 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 19 | #3,449 | 9.5 |
| 1991 | 29 | #2,457 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 34 | #2,158 | 16.6 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,768 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,899 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,188 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 16 | #3,119 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 25 | #2,221 | 13.5 |
| 1984 | 29 | #1,928 | 16.1 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,667 | 10.0 |
| 1982 | 27 | #2,055 | 14.9 |
| 1981 | 39 | #1,574 | 21.8 |
| 1980 | 39 | #1,566 | 21.9 |
| 1979 | 43 | #1,433 | 25.0 |
| 1978 | 58 | #1,176 | 35.3 |
| 1977 | 36 | #1,567 | 21.9 |
| 1976 | 48 | #1,285 | 30.6 |
| 1975 | 33 | #1,590 | 21.1 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,354 | 11.4 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,208 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,526 | 9.3 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,350 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,389 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tywan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,280 Americans recorded as Tywan, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Tywan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tywan, and how old are they?
1,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,280 Americans ever recorded as Tywan. The median Tywan alive today is 32 years old; half are between 23 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 868 people named Tywan (40 women and girls, 828 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,202 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 302 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 369 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 443 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 108 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 2,714 babies since 1880, Tywan is the most given (47% 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 Tywan
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 Tywan and names like it
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- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tywan since 1910.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Tywan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tywan alive today were born 1997-2012.
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