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Tawanna

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tawanna has been given to 3,874 babies in the U.S. since 1947. 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 1977, with 232 recorded.

Babies named Tawanna, 2008

1 in 655,000

Tawanna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tawanna: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tawanna means

Tawanna is a given name.

The naming story behind Tawanna

Wikidata records Tawanna as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q116184086, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,874 girls were recorded with the name Tawanna between 1947 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 232 in 1977; its best national rank was #678 in 1977.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Tawanna?

Tawanna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 655,000
6 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only
1 in 315,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
454,097 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tawanna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 454,097 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tawanna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tawannas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tawanna was born before 1976 — so the typical Tawanna is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
44.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,862
People you could plausibly meet
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1970s — 44.5% of all recorded uses (1,725).

Is Tawanna 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (232)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#678
1977

Spellings of Tawanna

Tawanna is not the most common spelling — Savanna is, with 18.8% against Tawanna's 2.2%.

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.

Where Tawanna is used

Across 1910–2025, Tawanna was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 3,030 girls, against 1 in 47,357 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).

033 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 3,030
  2. 2Georgia1 in 16,667
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 20,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in 25,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 25,000
  6. 6Mississippi1 in 25,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 25,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tawanna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Tawanna

People whose public names include Tawanna, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tawanna by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#678
1977
Peak year
1977
232 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
3,874
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tawanna

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Tawanna

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tawanna, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Tawanna

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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