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Tywanda

Girls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Tywanda has been given to 547 babies in the U.S. since 1961. 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 1976, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Tywanda, 2000

1 in 472,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tywanda: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

coinages

What Tywanda means

Tywanda is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Tywanda is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Tywanda is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 547 girls were recorded with the name Tywanda between 1961 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 39 in 1976; its best national rank was #2,209 in 1976.

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 Tywanda?

Tywanda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2000
1 in 472,000
8 of 3,778,496 births
Among girls only
1 in 227,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2000
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
327,383 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tywanda 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 2000 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 327,383 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tywanda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tywandas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tywanda was born before 1976 — so the typical Tywanda is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
57.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
547
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 57.2% of all recorded uses (313).

Is Tywanda 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 1976 (39)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,209
1976

Spellings of Tywanda

Tywanda is not the most common spelling — Wanda is, with 84.7% against Tywanda's 0.16%.

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 Tywanda is used

Across 1910–2025, Tywanda was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 687,220 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Louisiana1 in —
  6. 6Mississippi1 in —
  7. 7South Carolina1 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. Tywanda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tywanda 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
—
Best rank ever
#2,209
1976
Peak year
1976
39 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2000
All-time count
547
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tywanda

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

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Sibling names for Tywanda

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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