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Tawanna vs Tawn

American parents have registered 3,874 Tawannas since 1880, against 302 Tawns. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tawanna against Tawn, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tawanna Tawn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 60 years in which either name was published, Tawanna for 59 years and Tawn for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Tawanna Tawn
Total US births 3,874302
Most in one year 23228
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 3,600270
Median age today 4956
Peak year 19771969
Best rank 675th girls2,454th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19471948
Girls / boys 3,874 / 0270 / 32

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tawns alive today are over 56; half the Tawannas are over 49. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tawanna and Tawn.