Tawney
Meaning of Tawney
Tawney carries the gentle radiance of a sunlit ochre, her very syllables whispering of warm earth and golden dusk. Born from the Old English tan (“tawny brown”) and kindred to the modern English word for that honeyed hue, she evokes the rustic charm of rolling Tuscan hills and the glowing adobe walls of a Spanish pueblo at sunset. Though she never crowded the top ranks—California birth records in the 1980s and early ’90s show only a handful of Tawneys each year—this scarcity only deepens her allure, as if each appearance were a secret shared beneath a swaying palmera. Pronounced TAH-nee, she feels both grounded in pastoral tradition and lightly touched by contemporary grace, a name that balances familiar warmth with a dash of Latin flair and the promise of an unforgettable story.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as TAH-nee (/ˈtɑːni/)
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