Recorded 1950–2004 · United States
Tawnya was most popular in 1972, when 289 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,014 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 4,943 people named Tawnya.
Tawnya first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1950, which makes it about 75 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 53 of the 76 years since. It was last recorded in 2004.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 4,943 American births named Tawnya between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 4,633 are estimated to be alive today.
Tawnya was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Across the whole record Tawnya is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 4,943 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 4,633 Americans named Tawnya are alive today — 94% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 52 years old, and half are between 46 and 57. That is a narrow band: Tawnya arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org