How rare is the name Tawana?

5,003 people in the United States have the first name Tawana, about 1 in 60,370. It ranks #3,906 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

TAWANA

#3,906

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,003
About
1 in 60,370
This common or more
83.2%
Who bears it

Of the 5,003 people named Tawana, 81% reported their origin as Black, 13.1% as White and 3.8% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Tawana peaked in 1974, when 365 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19342011
Peak year
1974
Births that year
365
In 2011
5 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 6,545 babies have been given the name since 1934. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Tawana by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,005. The largest share of babies named Tawana, 62.8%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1930s#9,74313
1940s#5,46086
1950s#2,581438
1960s#1,6111,247
1970s#1,0053,107
1980s#1,8391,335
1990s#6,384276
2000s#26,54738
2010s#47,4065
Silent Generation 1928–450.7%
Baby boom 1946–6414.7%
Generation X 1965–8062.8%
Millennials 1981–9620.6%
Generation Z 1997–121.2%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Tawana is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tawana has been most common in District of Columbia (11×), Alabama (2.4×), and New York (2.4×), and least common in California (0.24×).

4,957 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Tawana

1 other first name also has 5,003 people.

#3,906 Shante · 5,003

Either side of Tawana

#3,905 Antionette · 5,004#3,906 Shante · 5,003#3,908 Lianna · 5,002#3,909 Gerri · 5,001

Spelled almost the same

7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Tawana, most common first.

#5,512 Tawanna · 3,098#14,330 Tawna · 824#15,884 Tayana · 718#23,091 Tawan · 427#39,134 Taiana · 194#50,823 Tawania · 117#51,501 Taiwana · 113

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