Tawana
6,545 recorded births · active 1934–2011
Compare Tawana →Living-age distribution
The median living Tawana is 51. If you meet a Tawana, there's about a 70% chance they're between 43 and 61 years old.
Popularity arc
Peak Tawana: 1974. Down 100% from peak.
Gender balance
Tawana is almost always given to female babies — 100% female.
Rarity
Tawana ranks #3,585 out of 105,966 names ever recorded by the SSA.
Geographic fingerprint
Tawanas are 1.1x more common in the South than the national average.
Predictive modeling
Three statistical models, all fit to Tawana's own SSA history plus the historical behavior of every other name in the dataset.
Peak popularity prediction
Tawana's modeled peak was #889 in 1974 — its trend isn't projected to beat that.
Not enough continuous recent history to project a peak rank.
Name life-cycle stage
A rule-based classifier over recent growth, momentum, and peak proximity.
Tawana hasn't shown up in SSA records since 2011 — fewer than 5 babies have gotten the name in any year since, which is below what the SSA even reports.
Popularity survival model
Once a name reaches a rank tier, how long does it typically stay there before falling out?
Built from a Kaplan-Meier survival curve: every historical run any name has ever had above this tier, with runs still ongoing today counted as still in progress rather than as an exit.Tawana isn't currently in the Top 100 tier. Estimated chance of entering it in the forecast window: 0%.
If Tawana enters Top 100, chance it's still there after:
Names that do enter Top 100 have historically stayed a median of ~19 years. Based on 668 historical Top 100 runs across every name in the dataset.