Tawanna
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʈəʋɒnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tawanna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 106K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 107K
- GHGhana≈1 in 25K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tawanna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Tawanna | 5 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Tawanna | 2 |
| US United States | — | 3,098 | 1 in 107K | 3.1K | Tawanna | 273 |
| GH Ghana | #685 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Tawanna | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Tawanna | 15 |
| LR Liberia | #292 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Tawanna | 1 |
| CU Cuba | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Tawanna | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | #972 | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Tawanna | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tawanna P. Gainesb. 1952USAmerican politician
- Tawanna DillahuntUSAmerican computer scientist and information scientist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.1K | #5,512 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 232 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 187 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 183 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 180 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 179 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 173 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 170 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1972 | 151 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1971 | 136 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 134 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 132 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Tawanna?
- A machine transcription gives /ʈəʋɒnə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Tawanna a male or female name?
- Tawanna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Tawanna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Tawanna in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tawanna.
- How common is the name Tawanna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,098 people named Tawanna in 2020, about 1 in 107 thousand residents.
- How common is Tawanna compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Tawanna is the 292nd most common given name of 2,671 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tawanna?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tawannaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tawanna” — the 292nd most common given name in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.