Twanna
Last seen for girls in 1997 at #10,836
- Peak · girls
- 1977 · 132 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,333since 1948
Twanna over time
Rank among girls' names. Twanna has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 |
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| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 |
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| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 |
| 1989 | #5,545 | 15 |
| 1988 | #5,321 | 15 |
| 1987 | #5,613 | 13 |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 |
| 1985 | #5,077 | 14 |
| 1984 | #4,166 | 18 |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 |
| 1982 | #2,830 | 32 |
| 1981 | #2,195 | 46 |
| 1980 | #2,308 | 42 |
| 1979 | #2,273 | 42 |
| 1978 | #1,347 | 88 |
| 1977 | #1,016 | 132 |
| 1976 | #1,237 | 91 |
| 1975 | #1,877 | 48 |
| 1974 | #2,290 | 34 |
| 1973 | #2,267 | 34 |
| 1972 | #1,607 | 56 |
| 1971 | #1,906 | 45 |
| 1970 | #1,681 | 55 |
| 1969 | #2,254 | 32 |
| 1968 | #1,678 | 48 |
| 1967 | #1,821 | 41 |
| 1966 | #2,058 | 32 |
| 1965 | #1,829 | 39 |
| 1964 | #1,747 | 44 |
| 1963 | #1,922 | 37 |
| 1962 | #1,989 | 34 |
| 1961 | #2,673 | 21 |
| 1960 | #2,369 | 25 |
| 1959 | #2,678 | 19 |
| 1958 | #3,543 | 12 |
| 1957 | #3,696 | 11 |
| 1956 | #2,622 | 19 |
| 1955 | #3,571 | 11 |
| 1954 | #3,490 | 11 |
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| 1952 | #4,123 | 8 |
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| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 |
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| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Twanna! It came in at #5,243, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1948–1951, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Twanna is popular in 1959
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- District of Columbia#352 · 1 in 2,631
Best ever in a state: #323 in District of Columbia, 1960.
Show every state
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| District of Columbia | #352 | 5 | 1 in 2,631 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Twanna
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1997
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1977 at #1,016 (132 births)
- Births halved by 1979, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,615 girls born in 1977 were named Twanna (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 248,673 girls born in 1997 (0.00%)
- 46.9% of all girls named Twanna (625) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,243 (1948) | #5,243 |
| 1950s | 96 | #2,622 (1956) | #3,628 |
| 1960s | 353 | #1,678 (1968) | #2,034 |
| 1970s | 625 | #1,016 (1977) | #1,750 |
| 1980s | 229 | #2,195 (1981) | #4,189 |
| 1990s | 25 | #10,193 (1990) | #11,481 |
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.
Twanna in 1959
Top girls' names in 1959
More about 1959
girls
2,023,462 girls got a published name in 1959; 1 in 106,498 of them was named Twanna, which outranked 62.8% of the 7,202 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,596Vincenza20
- #2,596Winnifred20
- #2,596Yetta20
- #2,678Twanna19
- #2,678Adelle19
- #2,678Angelyn19
- #2,678Angi19
- #2,760Alan18
- #2,760Alejandra18
- #2,760Alix18
Tied with 81 names at #2,678; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.