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Tiwanna
How to Pronounce Tiwanna
Pronounced tee-WAH-nuh /tiˈwɑː.nə/Medium
Meaning: Tiwanna is a mid-century American coinage pairing the Ti-/Ta- prefix pattern with an ending in the family of Wanda and Juanita. It was invented for its rhythm and does not descend from a single older name.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Tiwanna is an invented name that joins a Ti- opening to a rolling -wanna ending in the style of Wanda and Juanita. Coinages like it spread among African American families in the late 1950s and 1960s. Tiwanna reached a small high around 1979 and was never common, given to only a couple dozen girls a year.
A girl named Tiwanna then would be in her forties now, marking it as a later-boomer and Gen-X-era coinage. It reads as a warm, rhythmic invention of its decade and has not revived, though the similar-sounding Tawanna and Shawanda kept company with it.
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What does the name Tiwanna mean?
It is a coined name joining the Ti- prefix with a Wanda- and Juanita-style ending; it was made for its sound.
How do you pronounce Tiwanna?
It's said tee-WAH-nuh /tiˈwɑː.nə/, three syllables.
Is Tiwanna a boy or girl name?
Tiwanna is used as a girl's name.
How popular is Tiwanna?
It has always been rare, a coined name given to only a couple dozen girls a year at its peak.