Twila
About 11,922 American babies have been named Twila since 1890, most of them around 1960. In 2025 it ranked 3,459th. About 6,800 Twilas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 64.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Twila
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 11,922
- Estimated living today
- 6,800
- Median age today
- 64
- Peak year
- 1960
- Best rank
- 562nd
- Rank in 2025
- 3,459th
- First recorded
- 1890
How old the living Twilas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 11,922 babies given the name since 1890, about 6,800 are alive — 57 in every hundred. Roughly 440 of them are children and 3,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1961 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Twila is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Twila is most concentrated in Kansas (9.6×), Nebraska (8.9×), West Virginia (5.8×), South Dakota (5.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1960
The most popular girls’ names the year Twila peaked:
Related names
Twila against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.