Tawnja

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Tawnja has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1963. 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 1963, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Tawnja, 1965

1 in 725,000

Tawnja over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tawnja: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tawnja means

Tawnja is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Tawnja is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Tawnja between 1963 and 1965. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1963; its best national rank was #7,427 in 1965.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tawnja?

Tawnja had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1965, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1965: 1 in 725,000; 5 of 3,625,243 births
Among girls only: 1 in 353,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1965: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 502,567 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Tawnja 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 1965 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 502,567 children born in 1965 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tawnja. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tawnjas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tawnja was born before 1963 — so the typical Tawnja is around 62 today.

Median birth year: 1963; About 62 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 10; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Tawnja 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: —; 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 1963 (5)
Years since peak: 62; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #7,427; 1965

Spellings of Tawnja

Tawnja is not the most common spelling — Tanya is, with 54.3% against Tawnja's <0.01%.

Tanya54.3%116,855
Tania13.4%28,891
Tana4.3%9,274
Tonja3.2%6,989
Tawana3.0%6,545
Dawna2.8%6,017
Tawnya2.3%4,943
Tawny2.0%4,228

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.

Tawnja 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: #7,427; 1965
Peak year: 1963; 5 that year
First recorded: 1963
Last recorded: 1965
All-time count: 10
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Tawnja

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

Tawann Tawnni Tawasha Tawayna Tawauna Tawanne Tawiana Tawnjai Tawne Tawatha Stanja Tawaina Tawona Sunja Tawsha Tawanica Tawyna Latunja Tawanya Senja Monja Tawan Ninja Danja

Sibling names for Tawnja

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

For a sister

Jonna Edie Pennie Nannette Alesia Moira Lolita Lanette

For a brother

Greggory Berry Chet Rob Richie Vince Kennedy Blair

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