Towanda
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Towanda has been given to 2,140 babies in the U.S. since 1948. 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 131 recorded.
Babies named Towanda, 1993
1 in 754,000
Towanda 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Towanda?
Towanda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1993
- 1 in 754,000
- 5 of 3,768,729 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 362,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1993
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 522,458 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Towanda sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1993 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 522,458 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Towanda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Towandas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Towanda was born before 1971 — so the typical Towanda is around 54 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 45.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 62.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,133
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 45.6% of all recorded uses (976).
Is Towanda 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
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- 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 (131)
- Years since peak
- 54
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.2% average annual change
Spellings of Towanda
Towanda is not the most common spelling — Wanda is, with 63.8% against Towanda's 0.49%.
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 Towanda is used
Across 1910–2025, Towanda was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 61,537 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Maryland1 in 5,263
- 2District of Columbia1 in 12,500
- 3Virginia1 in 33,333
- 4Mississippi1 in 50,000
- 5North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 6South Carolina1 in 50,000
- 7Alabama1 in 100,000
- 8Florida1 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. Towanda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Towanda by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Towanda
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Towanda
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Towanda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Towanda
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.