Tawnya

Last seen for girls in 2004 at #14,179

Peak · girls
1972 · 289 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
4,943
since 1950

Tawnya over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Tawnya has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201954peak #569, 1972girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2004#14,1796
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2001#12,0567
2000#11,8017
1999#11,3857
1998#10,1228
1997#7,74211
1996#10,5677
1995#6,25714
1994#5,01619
1993#3,98726
1992#3,03638
1991#2,84341
1990#2,25856
1989#2,02762
1988#1,61480
1987#1,55381
1986#1,63872
1985#1,40191
1984#1,232105
1983#1,32890
1982#1,164119
1981#991147
1980#1,043137
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1967#862138
1966#1,031101
1965#1,048100
1964#1,14193
1963#1,08799
1962#1,29273
1961#1,17688
1960#1,25376
1959#1,51651
1958#1,93932
1957#1,92832
1956#2,45321
1955#2,47220
1954#2,51919
1953#2,51618
1952#3,55210
1951#3,28411
1950#5,3015
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First appearance
1950

The first year at least five girls were named Tawnya! It came in at #5,301, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2002–2003, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Tawnya is popular in 1954

No state had 5 or more girls named Tawnya in 1954, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Tawnya
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2004
  • Biggest jump: 169 spots in 1967 (#1,031 → #862)
  • Biggest drop: 177 spots in 1977 (#669 → #846)
Rise & fade · girls
22 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1950
  • Peaked 1972 at #569 (289 births)
  • Births halved by 1980, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 14 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 1967–1979
Share of babies · girls
1 in 5,189
  • Highest: 1 in 5,189 girls born in 1973 were named Tawnya (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 306,042 girls born in 2004 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #569 in 1972, was only 1 in 5,264 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 47.2% of all girls named Tawnya (2,335) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s219#1,516 (1959)#2,748
1960s1,158#701 (1969)#1,030
1970s2,335#569 (1972)#696
1980s984#991 (1981)#1,399
1990s227#2,258 (1990)#6,321
2000s20#11,801 (2000)#12,679

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Tawnya in 1954

girls
#2,519
19 births · 1 in 102,206 girls

Top girls' names in 1954

  1. #1Mary68,019
  2. #2Linda55,371
  3. #3Deborah54,674
  4. #4Patricia49,149
  5. #5Susan47,162
  6. #6Debra45,896
  7. #7Barbara36,368
  8. #8Karen32,456
  9. #9Nancy30,270
  10. #10Cynthia27,615
  11. #2,519Tawnya19
More about 1954

girls

1,941,915 girls got a published name in 1954; 1 in 102,206 of them was named Tawnya, which outranked 62.0% of the 6,625 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Tawnya
  1. #2,450Vena20
  2. #2,450Versie20
  3. #2,450Virgina20
  4. #2,519Tawnya19
  5. #2,519Alexia19
  6. #2,519Angelene19
  7. #2,519Barrie19
  8. #2,592Annice18
  9. #2,592Apryl18
  10. #2,592Arlena18

Tied with 72 names at #2,519; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1953
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,699Sherree#2,699 → #1,000
  2. ↑ 1,434Sabrina#2,236 → #802
  3. ↑ 932Valinda#1,738 → #806
  4. ↑ 748Sheree#1,071 → #323
  5. ↑ 421Sherie#1,248 → #827
Fallers
  1. ↓ 396Enola#948 → #1,344
  2. ↓ 311Ila#782 → #1,093
  3. ↓ 302Nancie#816 → #1,118
  4. ↓ 282Arline#904 → #1,186
  5. ↓ 269Candyce#944 → #1,213

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1954 →