Towana vs Townes
American parents have registered 1,511 Towneses since 1880, against 801 Towanas. Townes is still ahead, with 169 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Towana Townes
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 64 years in which either name was published, Towana for 40 years and Townes for 24 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Towana | Townes | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 801 | 1,511 |
| Most in one year | 48 | 169 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 169 |
| Estimated living today | 720 | 1,500 |
| Median age today | 56 | 5 |
| Peak year | 1971 | 2025 |
| Best rank | 1,828th girls | 1,315th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 1,315th |
| First recorded | 1940 | 2002 |
| Girls / boys | 801 / 0 | 107 / 1,404 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Towanas alive today are over 56; half the Towneses are over 5. That is 51 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Towana New York (6.9×), New Jersey (6.4×), Illinois (2.8×)
- Townes Texas (7.3×), Tennessee (2.8×), Georgia (1.5×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Towana and Townes.