Tawanda
Tawanda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 636th, in 1975.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1977260 births
- Best rank
- #636in 1975
- Since 1944
- 4,058people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,058 girls have been named Tawanda in the United States since 1944, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1977, with 260 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 260 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1976, and the 1970s alone account for 53%. It has spent 13 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1977, its biggest year
Tawanda was the 640th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1977 were Jennifer, Melissa, Amy, Jessica and Heather. See all of 1977.
Names that rose and fell with Tawanda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tawanapeak 1974
- Christypeak 1975
- Tawannapeak 1977
- Toyapeak 1976
- Mindipeak 1979
- Billiejopeak 1974
- Latonyapeak 1974
- Latrinapeak 1974
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.