Towana

Last seen for girls in 1992 at #13,317

Peak · girls
1971 · 48 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
801
since 1940

Towana over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Towana has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201971peak #1,828, 1971girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1992#13,3175
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1986#7,1349
1985#9,3076
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1983#5,14813
1982#10,5175
1981#5,25413
1980#4,51716
1979#5,09213
1978#3,00926
1977#2,90927
1976#3,67818
1975#2,35734
1974#2,17237
1973#2,12737
1972#2,02239
1971#1,82848
1970#2,57728
1969#2,29631
1968#2,12632
1967#2,03933
1966#2,40725
1965#2,41125
1964#1,83641
1963#2,17230
1962#2,07332
1961#2,67321
1960#2,24627
1959#3,10415
1958#3,23214
1957#2,92616
1956#2,72518
1955#3,77810
1954#2,69517
1953#5,6735
1952#5,5635
1951#4,0118
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First appearance
1940

The first year at least five girls were named Towana! It came in at #4,349, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1940–1948, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Towana
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1992
Rise & fade · girls
31 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1940
  • Peaked 1971 at #1,828 (48 births)
  • Births halved by 1976, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 34,663
  • Highest: 1 in 34,663 girls born in 1971 were named Towana (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 368,786 girls born in 1992 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 38.3% of all girls named Towana (307) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s16#4,349 (1940)#4,526
1950s114#2,695 (1954)#3,845
1960s297#1,836 (1964)#2,228
1970s307#1,828 (1971)#2,777
1980s62#4,517 (1980)#6,980
1990s5#13,317 (1992)#13,317

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Towana in 1971

girls
#1,828
48 births · 1 in 34,663 girls

Top girls' names in 1971

  1. #1Jennifer56,771
  2. #2Michelle33,160
  3. #3Lisa32,907
  4. #4Kimberly30,708
  5. #5Amy26,237
  6. #6Angela25,901
  7. #7Melissa23,875
  8. #8Tammy17,656
  9. #9Mary16,703
  10. #10Julie15,322
  11. #1,828Towana48
More about 1971

girls

1,663,823 girls got a published name in 1971; 1 in 34,663 of them was named Towana, which outranked 81.0% of the 9,645 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Towana
  1. #1,805Tammera49
  2. #1,805Tommy49
  3. #1,805Wendee49
  4. #1,828Towana48
  5. #1,828Bernita48
  6. #1,828Bronwyn48
  7. #1,828Coreen48
  8. #1,857Abbey47
  9. #1,857Belen47
  10. #1,857Dallas47

Tied with 28 names at #1,828; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1970
Risers
  1. 2,115Yesenia#2,522#407
  2. 1,431Shayla#2,267#836
  3. 853Ebony#1,681#828
  4. 749Consuela#1,706#957
  5. 510Candida#1,196#686
Fallers
  1. 572Sebrina#916#1,488
  2. 382Janene#684#1,066
  3. 375Treena#989#1,364
  4. 356Tisa#910#1,266
  5. 351Shaun#929#1,280

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1971