Meaning and history
This name comes from the English word tawny, which ultimately derives from Old French tané and means “light brown.”
20052005: no US SSA record for this spelling
2006: 21 births, rank #6,125
2007: 25 births, rank #5,526
2008: 17 births, rank #7,408
2009: 11 births, rank #9,975
20102010: 13 births, rank #8,701
2011: 13 births, rank #8,614
2012: 7 births, rank #13,483
2013: 5 births, rank #16,547
2014: 10 births, rank #10,129
20152015: no US SSA record for this spelling
2016: 10 births, rank #10,113
2017: no US SSA record for this spelling
2018: 6 births, rank #13,793
2019: no US SSA record for this spelling
20202020: no US SSA record for this spelling
2021: 5 births, rank #15,251
2022: no US SSA record for this spelling
2023: 6 births, rank #13,462
20242024: 5 births, rank #15,293
Tawny rose from #917 to #860 for girls between 1988 and 1989. That year also produced its highest recorded birth count, at 217.