Tawny

Where Tawny comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Tawny.

  • Vowel-ended
Tawny through the years
  1. 1947
    First appearance
    #3,706 among girls with 9 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1961
    Tawny Kitaen born
    American actress
  3. 1976
    Tawny Cypress born
    American actress
  4. 1989
    Peak, #859
    217 babies named Tawny, the most in any year.
  5. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,715.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Tawny Kitaen · American actress, 1961–2021
  • Tawny Cypress · American actress, born 1976
  • Tawny Roberts · American pornographic actress, born 1979
  • Tawny Newsome · American musician, comedian, actress, writer and podcaster, born 1983
  • Tawny Moyer · American actress, born 1957

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.