Tywana — girls' name
583 babies named Tywana in U.S. Social Security records since 1954, with the highest year being 1974. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
48% of everyone ever named Tywana was born in this single decade.
44 babies were named Tywana in 1974 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tywana
The Social Security Administration has registered 583 babies named Tywana between 1954 and 1999, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tywana currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1999. The name reached its historical peak in 1974, when 44 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tywana performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 278 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Tywana shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 28 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Tywana in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tywana in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 583 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Tywana at a glance
Last recorded 1999Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tywana popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1999–1954
- Peak year (1974)
- 44
- Annual births at peak — across 46 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1999.
583 total births across 46 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1974 with 44 births in a single year.
Tywana by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 278 births that decade — 48% of Tywana's all-time total
Tywana decade highlights
- Peak decade 278 births
- Runner-up 127 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Tywana's strongest decade
278 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 48% of all-time use.
Tywana by state
Where Tywana concentrates geographically — total births since 1954
Top 5 states
- New York 4.8% of nationwide
- Illinois 1.2% of nationwide
- Texas 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 4.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1954–1999 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.