Tawny Kitaen (1961-2021) — American actress and model; defined the 1980s music-video era through her appearances dancing on the hoods of Jaguars in Whitesnake videos "Here I Go Again," "Is This Love," and "Still of the Night"; Bachelor Party (1984), Witchboard (1986). "Tawny" is also a popular variant alongside Tawnee and Tawney, all peaking in the mid-1980s era of Tara, Tracy, and Tonya. The name has had a quiet 2020s comeback through Yellowjackets and the broader vintage-1980s revival.
Tawny does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tawny reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.