Tawni
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Tawni has been given to 1,876 babies in the U.S. since 1950. 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 1989, with 105 recorded.
Babies named Tawni, 2011
1 in 732,000
Tawni 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Tawni?
Tawni had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2011
- 1 in 732,000
- 5 of 3,657,935 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 352,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2011
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,099 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Tawni sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tawni. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Tawnis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Tawni was born before 1987 — so the typical Tawni is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 30.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 50.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,876
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (567).
Is Tawni 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 1989 (105)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.3% average annual change
Spellings of Tawni
Tawni is not the most common spelling — Dawn is, with 50.7% against Tawni's 0.33%.
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 Tawni is used
Across 1910–2025, Tawni was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 94,465 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Utah1 in 16,667
- 2California1 in 50,000
- 3Washington1 in 50,000
- 4Arizona1 in 100,000
- 5Colorado1 in 100,000
- 6Montana1 in 100,000
- 7Nevada1 in 100,000
- 8Oregon1 in 100,000
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. Tawni has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Tawni around the world
Where Tawni 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.
- Canada1992–1993#1,742in 1993
- South Australia1969–1969#731in 1969
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.
Tawni by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Tawni
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Tawni
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.