Twanna

Last seen for girls in 1997 at #10,836

Peak · girls
1977 · 132 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,333
since 1948

Twanna over time

girls

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201979peak #1,016, 1977girls
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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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1997#10,8367
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1995#13,3865
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1991#11,5096
1990#10,1937
1989#5,54515
1988#5,32115
1987#5,61313
1986#4,72416
1985#5,07714
1984#4,16618
1983#4,10918
1982#2,83032
1981#2,19546
1980#2,30842
1979#2,27342
1978#1,34788
1977#1,016132
1976#1,23791
1975#1,87748
1974#2,29034
1973#2,26734
1972#1,60756
1971#1,90645
1970#1,68155
1969#2,25432
1968#1,67848
1967#1,82141
1966#2,05832
1965#1,82939
1964#1,74744
1963#1,92237
1962#1,98934
1961#2,67321
1960#2,36925
1959#2,67819
1958#3,54312
1957#3,69611
1956#2,62219
1955#3,57111
1954#3,49011
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First appearance
1948

The first year at least five girls were named Twanna! It came in at #5,243, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1948–1951, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Twanna
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1997
Rise & fade · girls
29 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1948
  • Peaked 1977 at #1,016 (132 births)
  • Births halved by 1979, 2 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 11,615
  • Highest: 1 in 11,615 girls born in 1977 were named Twanna (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 248,673 girls born in 1997 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 46.9% of all girls named Twanna (625) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s5#5,243 (1948)#5,243
1950s96#2,622 (1956)#3,628
1960s353#1,678 (1968)#2,034
1970s625#1,016 (1977)#1,750
1980s229#2,195 (1981)#4,189
1990s25#10,193 (1990)#11,481

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.

Twanna in 1979

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#2,273
42 births · 1 in 38,221 girls

Top girls' names in 1979

  1. #1Jennifer56,712
  2. #2Melissa34,050
  3. #3Amanda31,924
  4. #4Jessica27,780
  5. #5Amy21,609
  6. #6Sarah21,015
  7. #7Heather20,834
  8. #8Angela20,256
  9. #9Nicole19,510
  10. #10Michelle19,266
  11. #2,273Twanna42
More about 1979

girls

1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 38,221 of them was named Twanna, which outranked 81.0% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Twanna
  1. #2,248Suzannah43
  2. #2,248Tanaya43
  3. #2,248Tiffiany43
  4. #2,273Twanna42
  5. #2,273Andi42
  6. #2,273Annabel42
  7. #2,273Arika42
  8. #2,304Aarika41
  9. #2,304Aesha41
  10. #2,304Aimie41

Tied with 30 names at #2,273; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1978
Risers
  1. 1,593Breanne#2,125#532
  2. 1,527Loni#2,516#989
  3. 1,287Renata#2,012#725
  4. 985Ashanti#1,862#877
  5. 896Nicolette#1,581#685
Fallers
  1. 392Christel#762#1,154
  2. 312Kenisha#557#869
  3. 297Ariane#887#1,184
  4. 285Imelda#947#1,232
  5. 252Farrah#539#791

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

See the top 100 for 1979