How Many People Are Named Tawny?
people named Tawny are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 85,063 people in the US has this name
Based on 4,228 babies named Tawny in Social Security records from 1947 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
217 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From the English word, ultimately deriving from Old French tané, which means "light brown".
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Tawny in English. Counting Tawny and these spellings together, about 6,485 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Tawny in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Tawny alive today is about 41 years old, and 75% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 33 and 47 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Tawny first appears in the records in 1947 and was given most often in 1989, to 217 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1947 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Tawny has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #857, in 1989.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #857 (1989) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,008 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Tawny alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Tawny were born in California than in any other state: about 1,207 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Tawny was given 4.6 times as often in California, 3.2 times in Washington and 2.8 times in Utah.
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