Meaning not yet researched.
Twyla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 56 in 2025. Its best rank was #750 in 1964.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #750 in 1964; #2,995 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Twyla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,995 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1964, at #750.
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Twyla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 56 girls in 2025. Peak: #750 in 1964 · most girls in one year: 194 (1964).
In 2025, 56 US girls were named Twyla, making it the 2,995th most common girls’ name of the year, up 818 places from #3,813 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 40 girls named Twyla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #750, reached in 1964. That year also had the most girls given the name: 194. For comparison, it was #5,443 in 2015 and #868 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Twyla in 121 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1905 with 6 babies. In all, 7,192 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,333 babies named Twyla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 414 US girls were named Twyla; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 60. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,701 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Twyla ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #823 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Twila (11,922 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Twyla in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 5 | #823 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,221 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,665 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #3,262 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,995 | — | — |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,813 | — | — |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,934 | — | — |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,855 | — | — |
| 2021 | 58 | #2,926 | — | — |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,536 | — | — |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,536 | — | — |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,989 | — | — |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,372 | — | — |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,122 | — | — |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,443 | — | — |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,445 | — | — |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,446 | — | — |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,543 | — | — |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,054 | — | — |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,488 | — | — |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,472 | — | — |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,724 | — | — |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,379 | — | — |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,246 | — | — |
| 2005 | 30 | #4,572 | — | — |
| 2004 | 26 | #5,054 | — | — |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,302 | — | — |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,436 | — | — |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,804 | — | — |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,969 | — | — |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,205 | — | — |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,114 | — | — |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,218 | — | — |
| 1996 | 27 | #4,050 | — | — |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,244 | — | — |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,109 | — | — |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,677 | — | — |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,500 | — | — |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,206 | — | — |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,434 | — | — |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,876 | — | — |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,696 | — | — |
| 1987 | 50 | #2,196 | — | — |
| 1986 | 52 | #2,076 | — | — |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,597 | — | — |
| 1984 | 65 | #1,700 | — | — |
| 1983 | 62 | #1,750 | — | — |
| 1982 | 55 | #1,949 | — | — |
| 1981 | 60 | #1,846 | — | — |
| 1980 | 71 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1979 | 96 | #1,312 | — | — |
| 1978 | 83 | #1,410 | — | — |
| 1977 | 96 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 1976 | 89 | #1,262 | — | — |
| 1975 | 78 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1974 | 78 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 1973 | 73 | #1,373 | — | — |
| 1972 | 92 | #1,180 | — | — |
| 1971 | 106 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 1970 | 115 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 1969 | 113 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 1968 | 105 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 1967 | 101 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1966 | 99 | #1,056 | — | — |
| 1965 | 120 | #932 | — | — |
| 1964 | 194 | #750 | — | — |
| 1963 | 137 | #897 | — | — |
| 1962 | 142 | #889 | — | — |
| 1961 | 155 | #857 | — | — |
| 1960 | 167 | #800 | — | — |
| 1959 | 142 | #864 | — | — |
| 1958 | 140 | #864 | — | — |
| 1957 | 152 | #826 | — | — |
| 1956 | 147 | #821 | — | — |
| 1955 | 121 | #889 | — | — |
| 1954 | 118 | #887 | — | — |
| 1953 | 100 | #947 | — | — |
| 1952 | 116 | #856 | — | — |
| 1951 | 103 | #900 | — | — |
| 1950 | 105 | #868 | — | — |
| 1949 | 93 | #926 | — | — |
| 1948 | 73 | #1,040 | — | — |
| 1947 | 93 | #925 | — | — |
| 1946 | 72 | #995 | — | — |
| 1945 | 60 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 1944 | 64 | #981 | — | — |
| 1943 | 62 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1942 | 50 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 1941 | 69 | #885 | — | — |
| 1940 | 57 | #955 | — | — |
| 1939 | 75 | #796 | — | — |
| 1938 | 67 | #865 | — | — |
| 1937 | 64 | #868 | — | — |
| 1936 | 66 | #837 | — | — |
| 1935 | 59 | #903 | — | — |
| 1934 | 59 | #893 | — | — |
| 1933 | 68 | #813 | — | — |
| 1932 | 61 | #904 | — | — |
| 1931 | 64 | #867 | — | — |
| 1930 | 73 | #837 | — | — |
| 1929 | 61 | #920 | — | — |
| 1928 | 50 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 1927 | 62 | #975 | — | — |
| 1926 | 47 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 1925 | 65 | #929 | — | — |
| 1924 | 54 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 1923 | 53 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1922 | 45 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 1921 | 42 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 1920 | 42 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1919 | 39 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 1918 | 38 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 1916 | 33 | #1,274 | — | — |
| 1915 | 28 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,657 | — | — |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,794 | — | — |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,534 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,833 | — | — |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,917 | — | — |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,197 | — | — |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,846 | — | — |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,630 | — | — |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,932 | — | — |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,909 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).