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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

Births per year: Towana against Townes, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

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 8011,511
Most in one year 48169
Babies in 2025 under 5169
Estimated living today 7201,500
Median age today 565
Peak year 19712025
Best rank 1,828th girls1,315th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,315th
First recorded 19402002
Girls / boys 801 / 0107 / 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

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.