Feminine dossier · first seen 1944

Tawanda

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Tawanda
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1977

Peak rank proxy

260

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Gen X

1944Peak 19772024

Peak year

1977

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

4,058

Tawanda has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Gen X naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1977, when 260 girls were named Tawanda.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 4,058 Americans have been named Tawanda and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1944.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGen X

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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