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Tawn

Tawn reached its high-water mark in 1969 at number 2,454, and has been recorded 302 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1983. About 270 Tawns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 56.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Tawn boys named Tawn

By the numbers

Total US births
302
Estimated living today
270
Median age today
56
Peak year
1969
Best rank
2,454th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1948
Girls / boys
270 / 32

How old the living Tawns are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 302 babies given the name since 1948, about 270 are alive — 89 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1969 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Names of 1969

The most popular girls’ names the year Tawn peaked:

All the names of 1969

Related names

Tawn against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.