Twila

Where Twila comes from

The dictionaries list Twila as a given name — a female given name, variant of Twyla — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1890
    First appearance
    #1,210 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1934
    Peak, #463
    195 babies named Twila — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1958
    Twila Paris born
    American songwriter and singer
  4. 1973
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,151.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Twyla.
Namesakes
  • Twila Paris · American songwriter and singer, born 1958
  • Twila Moon · researcher (ORCID 0000-0003-0968-7008)

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.