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Twila

#3,511 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Twila has been given to 11,922 babies in the U.S. since 1890. In 2025 it ranked #3,511 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1960, with 304 recorded.

Babies named Twila, 2025

1 in 75,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Twila: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Twila means

Twila is a variant of Twyla.

Origin, language, and formation

Twila is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Twyla.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,922 girls were recorded with the name Twila between 1890 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 304 in 1960; its best national rank was #464 in 1934.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,652 in 2020 to #3,511 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,016 in 2015 to #3,511 in 2025.

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 Twila?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 75,300
44 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 36,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,511
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
52,226 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Twila 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 52,226 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Twila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Twilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Twila was born before 1951 — so the typical Twila is around 74 today.

Median birth year
1951
About 74 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
17.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
6,176
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1950s — 17.0% of all recorded uses (2,026).

Is Twila 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
+375
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,141
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,505
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.5%
Peak was 1960 (304)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#464
1934

Spellings of Twila

Twila is not the most common spelling — Tina is, with 30.7% against Twila's 1.3%.

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 Twila is used

Across 1910–2025, Twila was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in 2,174 girls, against 1 in 19,019 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

046 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Kansas1 in 2,174
  2. 2Nebraska1 in 2,381
  3. 3South Dakota1 in 3,846
  4. 4West Virginia1 in 3,846
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 5,000
  6. 6Iowa1 in 6,667
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 7,143
  8. 8Montana1 in 7,692

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. Twila has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Twila around the world

Where Twila 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.

  • Canada
    1992–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Twila

People whose public names include Twila, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Twila by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,511
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,141
Best rank ever
#464
1934
Peak year
1960
304 that year
First recorded
1890
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,922
Count in 2025
44

Names similar to Twila

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

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Names with a curve like Twila

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

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Sibling names for Twila

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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