Tawanda
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tawanda is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script.
- ZASouth Africa1 in 24K◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 88K
- USUnited States1 in 103K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.3K ●
- Sources
- 221 ●
- 1 in 103K ◐
across 4 countries
48K records
Official registry-verified
United States
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●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,229 | 42K rec. | 1 in 103K | 3.2K | Tawanda | 221 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,351 | 2.1K rec. | — | — | Tawanda | 60 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 1,429 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Tawanda | 47 |
| AU Australia | — | 658 | 617 rec. | — | 1 | Tawanda | 51 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | #187 | 470 | 210 rec. | — | — | Tawanda | 45 |
| CA Canada | — | 233 | 244 rec. | — | — | Tawanda | 17 |
| RU Russia | — | 173 | 184 rec. | — | — | Tawanda | 7 |
| IT Italy | — | 137 | 141 rec. | — | — | Tawanda | 4 |
| EG Egypt | — | 136 | 136 rec. | — | — | Tawanda | 4 |
| DE Germany | — | 107 | 104 rec. | — | — | Tawanda | 15 |
| GH Ghana | #919 | 94 | 94 rec. | — | listed | Tawanda | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | — | 88 | 88 rec. | — | — | Tawanda | 3 |
Roughly 3.2K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 103K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English48K84%
- 2K4%
- Swahili1.4K2%
- Spanish1.4K2%
- French4121%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 47,690 | 84% |
| 2,007 | 4% | |
| Swahili | 1,389 | 2% |
| Spanish | 1,359 | 2% |
| French | 412 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1944 | 5 |
| 1949 | 5 |
| 1952 | 7 |
| 1953 | 6 |
| 1954 | 5 |
| 1955 | 9 |
| 1956 | 8 |
| 1957 | 11 |
| 1958 | 12 |
| 1959 | 14 |
| 1960 | 28 |
| 1961 | 49 |
| 1962 | 48 |
| 1963 | 54 |
| 1964 | 68 |
| 1965 | 58 |
| 1966 | 84 |
| 1967 | 99 |
| 1968 | 104 |
| 1969 | 120 |
| 1970 | 145 |
| 1971 | 219 |
| 1972 | 198 |
| 1973 | 204 |
| 1974 | 220 |
| 1975 | 245 |
| 1976 | 227 |
| 1977 | 260 |
| 1978 | 241 |
| 1979 | 182 |
| 1980 | 167 |
| 1981 | 163 |
| 1982 | 112 |
| 1983 | 102 |
| 1984 | 102 |
| 1985 | 72 |
| 1986 | 58 |
| 1987 | 59 |
| 1988 | 50 |
| 1989 | 42 |
| 1990 | 26 |
| 1991 | 45 |
| 1992 | 25 |
| 1993 | 22 |
| 1994 | 19 |
| 1995 | 14 |
| 1996 | 11 |
| 1997 | 8 |
| 1998 | 9 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2003 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 52 years between 1944–2003. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 13 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.2K | #5,246 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 260 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 245 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 241 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 227 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 220 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1971 | 219 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 204 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1972 | 198 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 182 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 167 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 163 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 66 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tawanda?
- We estimate roughly 3.3 thousand people bear Tawanda (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Tawanda have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 3.2 thousand people bear Tawanda in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled tawanda.
- How common is Tawanda compared with other names?
- In Zimbabwe, Tawanda is the 187th most common given name of 3,651 given names recorded there.
- Is Tawanda a male or female name?
- Tawanda 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.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Tawanda” — the 187th most common given name in Zimbabwe. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.