Tawney
Tawney reached its high-water mark in 1988 at number 2,489, and has been recorded 575 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2005. About 550 Tawneys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 37.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Tawney
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 575
- Estimated living today
- 550
- Median age today
- 37
- Peak year
- 1988
- Best rank
- 2,489th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1948
How old the living Tawneys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 575 babies given the name since 1948, about 550 are alive — 95 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1988 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.
Where Tawney is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Tawney is most concentrated in California (9.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1988
The most popular girls’ names the year Tawney peaked:
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Tawney 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.