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Tawnie

Girls' name

Variant of Tawny

Tawnie has been given to 871 babies in the U.S. since 1951. 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 1988, with 45 recorded.

Babies named Tawnie, 2007

1 in 666,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tawnie: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Tawny

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tawnie means

Tawnie is a variant of Tawny.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tawnie is used in English (Rare).

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

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Tawnie → 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, 871 girls were recorded with the name Tawnie between 1951 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 45 in 1988; its best national rank was #2,437 in 1988.

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 Tawnie?

Tawnie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007
1 in 666,000
6 of 3,997,748 births
Among girls only
1 in 320,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2007
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
461,839 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tawnie 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 2007 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 461,839 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tawnie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tawnies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tawnie was born before 1987 — so the typical Tawnie is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
30.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
871
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (262).

Is Tawnie 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 1988 (45)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,437
1988

Spellings of Tawnie

Tawnie is not the most common spelling — Annie is, with 52.6% against Tawnie's 0.13%.

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 Tawnie is used

Across 1910–2025, Tawnie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 178,210 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4Utah1 in —
  5. 5Washington1 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. Tawnie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tawnie around the world

Where Tawnie 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 & Wales
    2006–2006
    #5,061
    in 2006
  • Canada
    1993–1993
    #2,426
    in 1993

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Tawnie 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
#2,437
1988
Peak year
1988
45 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
871
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tawnie

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

AlanieRennieChanieTawneeElanieSonnieEmonieRainieJaynieTawniaTawneyDaphnieTawnaMalanieLainieEvanieLynnieArmonieLeonieLaynieDannieKennieJonieSunnie

Sibling names for Tawnie

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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