How Many People Are Named Twyla?
people named Twyla are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 66,032 people in the US has this name
Based on 7,192 babies named Twyla in Social Security records from 1905 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
194 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of TWILA.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Twyla in English. Counting Twyla and these spellings together, about 11,942 people alive in the US have the name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Twyla in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Twyla alive today is about 52 years old, and 46% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 41 and 68 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Twyla first appears in the records in 1905 and was given most often in 1964, to 194 babies. In 2025, 56 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1905 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Twyla has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #750, in 1964. In 2025 it ranked #2,995.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,995 |
| Best rank | #750 (1964) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #913 in the 1960s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Twyla alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Twyla were born in Texas than in any other state: about 311 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Twyla was given 8 times as often in Iowa, 6.2 times in Oklahoma and 3.8 times in Kansas.
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