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Tywan vs Tywanna

American parents have registered 1,280 Tywans since 1880, against 625 Tywannas. Tywan is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tywan against Tywanna, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tywan Tywanna

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 70 years in which either name was published, Tywan for 51 years and Tywanna for 19 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Tywan Tywanna
Total US births 1,280625
Most in one year 5837
Babies in 2025 6under 5
Estimated living today 1,200580
Median age today 3149
Peak year 19781974
Best rank 1,170th boys2,172nd girls
Rank in 2025 10,695thunranked
First recorded 19701948
Girls / boys 15 / 1,265625 / 0

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 Tywannas alive today are over 49; half the Tywans are over 31. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tywan and Tywanna.