girls:
4.9k births since 1950
#2410 (58th percentile)
overall:
4.9k births since 1950
#3883 (50th percentile)
The name Tawnya is the #3,883 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,943 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 49.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 49.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,410 (57.8% percentile) for all time with 4,943 births since 1950.
Tawnya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (first recorded for girls in 1950). Birth data for Tawnya is available in 53 out of the 55 years between 1950 and 2004. 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, Tawnya reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 34.8% percentile (ranked #487) with 176 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 181 births per million (ranked 34.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tawnya".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Tawnya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.7% confident that Tawnya is pronounced as TAW-nyuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TAH-nyuh, at 26.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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