girls:
1.3k births since 1948
#4393 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1948
#6411 (17th percentile)
The name Twanna is the #6,411 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,332 recorded births since 1948. This represents the 17.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,393 (23.1% percentile) for all time with 1,332 births since 1948.
Twanna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1948 (first recorded for girls in 1948). Birth data for Twanna is available in 43 out of the 50 years between 1948 and 1997. 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, Twanna reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 16.6% percentile (ranked #641) with 80 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 80 births per million (ranked 16.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1997.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Twanna".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Twanna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Twanna is pronounced as TWAH-nuh, which has 2 syllables.
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