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Twana

#17,074 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Twana has been given to 2,229 babies in the U.S. since 1938. In 2025 it ranked #17,074 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1974, with 119 recorded.

Babies named Twana, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Twana: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Twana means

Twana is a given name.

The naming story behind Twana

Wikidata records Twana as a given name. The entity identifier is Q132717464, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,229 girls were recorded with the name Twana between 1938 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 119 in 1974; its best national rank was #1,012 in 1974.

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 Twana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#17,074
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Twana 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Twana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Twanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Twana was born before 1971 — so the typical Twana is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
41.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.22%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,175
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1970s — 41.5% of all recorded uses (925).

Is Twana 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
4.2%
Peak was 1974 (119)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,012
1974

Spellings of Twana

Twana is not the most common spelling — Diana is, with 16.4% against Twana's 0.10%.

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 Twana is used

Across 1910–2025, Twana was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 137,578 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 100,000
  2. 2District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 100,000
  8. 8Michigan1 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. Twana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Twana by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#17,074
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,012
1974
Peak year
1974
119 that year
First recorded
1938
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,229
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Twana

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

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Names with a curve like Twana

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Twana, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Twana

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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