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Twyla

#2,995 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Twila

Twyla has been given to 7,192 babies in the U.S. since 1905. In 2025 it ranked #2,995 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1964, with 194 recorded.

Babies named Twyla, 2025

1 in 59,200

Twyla over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Twyla: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Twila

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Twyla means

Twyla is a variant of Twila.

Origin, language, and formation

Twyla is used in English.

Twyla is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Twila.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Twyla is pronounced /ˈtwaɪlə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,192 girls were recorded with the name Twyla between 1905 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 194 in 1964; its best national rank was #750 in 1964.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,534 in 2020 to #2,995 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,441 in 2015 to #2,995 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 Twyla?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 59,200
56 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 28,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,995
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Twyla 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 41,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Twyla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Twylas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Twyla was born before 1961 — so the typical Twyla is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
18.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,077
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 18.5% of all recorded uses (1,333).

Is Twyla 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
+818
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,539
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,446
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.24×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.9%
Peak was 1964 (194)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#750
1964

Spellings of Twyla

Twyla is not the most common spelling — Kayla is, with 39.3% against Twyla's 0.82%.

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 Twyla is used

Across 2016–2025, Twyla was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 85,758 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

13 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 50,000
  3. 3Washington1 in 50,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 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.

Twyla around the world

Where Twyla 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.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1975–2010
    #521
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Twyla

People whose public names include Twyla, 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.

Twyla by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,995
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,539
Best rank ever
#750
1964
Peak year
1964
194 that year
First recorded
1905
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,192
Count in 2025
56

Names similar to Twyla

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

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Names with a curve like Twyla

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

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Sibling names for Twyla

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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