# Twila (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/twila/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 11,922 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 11,922 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 28 | 5,053 |
| 2012 | 7 | 14,871 |
| 2013 | 27 | 5,137 |
| 2014 | 23 | 5,784 |
| 2015 | 22 | 6,018 |
| 2016 | 24 | 5,602 |
| 2017 | 21 | 6,025 |
| 2018 | 30 | 4,653 |
| 2019 | 23 | 5,601 |
| 2020 | 22 | 5,656 |
| 2021 | 25 | 5,226 |
| 2022 | 34 | 4,288 |
| 2023 | 29 | 4,735 |
| 2024 | 39 | 3,886 |
| 2025 | 44 | 3,512 |

## People named Twila

- Twila Paris, American songwriter and singer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.