girls:
6.5k births since 1934
#2033 (64th percentile)
overall:
6.5k births since 1934
#3339 (57th percentile)
The name Tawana is the #3,339 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,545 recorded births since 1934. This represents the 56.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 56.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,033 (64.4% percentile) for all time with 6,545 births since 1934.
Tawana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1934 (first recorded for girls in 1934). Birth data for Tawana is available in 68 out of the 78 years between 1934 and 2011. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Tawana reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 42.0% percentile (ranked #433) with 233 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 233 births per million (ranked 42.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tawana".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Tawana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.8% confident that Tawana is pronounced as tuh-WAH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is tah-WAH-nuh, at 24.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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