Twila

Where Twila comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Twila.

  • Vowel-ended
Twila through the years
  1. 1890
    First appearance
    #1,210 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1934
    Peak, #463
    195 babies named Twila, its best rank.
  3. 1958
    Twila Paris born
    American songwriter and singer
  4. 1973
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,151.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Twyla.
Namesakes
  • Twila Paris · American songwriter and singer, born 1958
  • Twila Moon · researcher (ORCID 0000-0003-0968-7008)

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.