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Towana

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Towana has been given to 801 babies in the U.S. since 1940. 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 1971, with 48 recorded.

Babies named Towana, 1992

1 in 768,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Towana: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Towana means

Towana is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Towana is used in Amis.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 801 girls were recorded with the name Towana between 1940 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 48 in 1971; its best national rank was #1,855 in 1971.

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 Towana?

Towana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1992, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1992
1 in 768,000
5 of 3,839,369 births
Among girls only
1 in 369,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1992
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,251 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Towana 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 1992 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 532,251 children born in 1992 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Towana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Towanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Towana was born before 1969 — so the typical Towana is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
38.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
785
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 38.3% of all recorded uses (307).

Is Towana 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 1971 (48)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,855
1971

Spellings of Towana

Towana is not the most common spelling — Tiana is, with 18.7% against Towana's 0.50%.

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 Towana is used

Across 1910–2025, Towana was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 249,985 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 50,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 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. Towana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Towana 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
#1,855
1971
Peak year
1971
48 that year
First recorded
1940
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
801
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Towana

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

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Sibling names for Towana

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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