How rare is the name Tawnya?

4,213 people in the United States have the first name Tawnya, about 1 in 71,690. It ranks #4,437 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

TAWNYA

#4,437

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,213
About
1 in 71,690
This common or more
84%
Who bears it

Of the 4,213 people named Tawnya, 83.1% reported their origin as White, 5.2% as Black and 5% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Tawnya peaked in 1972, when 289 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19502004
Peak year
1972
Births that year
289
In 2004
6 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 4,943 babies have been given the name since 1950. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Tawnya by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #1,186. The largest share of babies named Tawnya, 64.8%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1950s#3,762219
1960s#1,6681,158
1970s#1,1862,335
1980s#2,200984
1990s#7,406227
2000s#33,34220
Baby boom 1946–6413.1%
Generation X 1965–8064.8%
Millennials 1981–9621.2%
Generation Z 1997–120.9%

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 Tawnya is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tawnya has been most common in Idaho (5.4×), Washington (5.4×), and Oregon (5.1×), and least common in Florida (0.31×).

3,037 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.

Either side of Tawnya

#4,435 Katalina · 4,219#4,436 Mariadejesus · 4,214#4,438 Eladio · 4,212#4,438 Kenji · 4,212

Spelled almost the same

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

#531 Tanya · 105,773#4,823 Tawny · 3,737#10,418 Taunya · 1,283#14,330 Tawna · 824#18,362 Tawnia · 588#26,290 Tannya · 355#51,658 Tahnya · 112

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