Tawan
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tawan has been given to 409 babies in the U.S. since 1970. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1973, with 17 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 85% boys, 15% girls all-time.
Babies named Tawan, 2019
1 in 496,000
Tawan over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Tawan over time
In 2019, Tawan went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Tawan?
Tawan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 496,000
- 7 of 3,472,229 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 256,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 343,825 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tawan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 343,825 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tawan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tawans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tawan was born before 1987 — so the typical Tawan is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 30.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 37.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 349
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 30.4% of all recorded uses (106).
Is Tawan rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1973 (17)
- Years since peak
- 52
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.0% average annual change
Spellings of Tawan
Tawan is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 60.5% against Tawan's 0.06%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Tawan around the world
Where Tawan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2009–2009#3,744in 2009
- France2012–2017#4,795in 2017
- South Australia2010–2010#754in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Tawan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Tawan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tawan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.