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Tawnee

Girls' name

Variant of Tawny

Tawnee has been given to 778 babies in the U.S. since 1960. 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 1990, with 51 recorded.

Babies named Tawnee, 2013

1 in 405,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tawnee: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Tawny

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tawnee means

Tawnee is a variant of Tawny.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tawnee is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɔː.ni/ for Tawnee.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Tawnee → Tawny. The family’s meaning is “light brown”, recorded in the naming reference for Tawny.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tawny.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 778 girls were recorded with the name Tawnee between 1960 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 51 in 1990; its best national rank was #2,398 in 1989.

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 Tawnee?

Tawnee had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 405,000
9 of 3,645,938 births
Among girls only
1 in 195,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
280,798 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tawnee 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 2013 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 280,798 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tawnee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tawnees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tawnee was born before 1988 — so the typical Tawnee is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
778
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 34.6% of all recorded uses (269).

Is Tawnee 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (51)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,398
1989

Spellings of Tawnee

Tawnee is not the most common spelling — Tawnya is, with 12.0% against Tawnee's 1.9%.

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 Tawnee is used

Across 1910–2025, Tawnee was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 425,716 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Ohio1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —
  4. 4Washington1 in —

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. Tawnee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tawnee around the world

Where Tawnee 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.

  • Canada
    1991–1991
    #2,397
    in 1991
  • South Australia
    1996–1996
    #712
    in 1996

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tawnee 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
—
Best rank ever
#2,398
1989
Peak year
1990
51 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
778
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tawnee

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

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Sibling names for Tawnee

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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