girls:
4.2k births since 1947
#2644 (54th percentile)
overall:
4.2k births since 1947
#4217 (46th percentile)
The name Tawny is the #4,217 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,223 recorded births since 1947. This represents the 45.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 45.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,644 (53.7% percentile) for all time with 4,223 births since 1947.
Tawny first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1947 (first recorded for girls in 1947). Birth data for Tawny is available in 72 out of the 77 years between 1947 and 2023. 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, Tawny reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 26.0% percentile (ranked #611) with 109 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 109 births per million (ranked 26.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1995, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Tawny ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 3.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tawny".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Tawny. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.5% confident that Tawny is pronounced as TAW-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TAH-nee, at 19.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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