girls:
11.8k births since 1890
#1444 (75th percentile)
overall:
11.8k births since 1890
#2419 (69th percentile)
The name Twila is the #2,419 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,839 recorded births since 1890. This represents the 68.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 68.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,444 (74.7% percentile) for all time with 11,839 births since 1890.
Twila first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1890 (first recorded for girls in 1890). Birth data for Twila is available in 132 out of the 134 years between 1890 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, Twila reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 35.2% percentile (ranked #500) with 146 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 181 births per million (ranked 29.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Twila ranks #923 for girls (2.5% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 9.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Twila".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Twila. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.1% confident that Twila is pronounced as TWAI-luh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TWEE-luh, at 13.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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