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I think of port, which makes it the contrast to Ruby.
It also sounds pretty 60s like Twyla, Dawn, Sherry, fringe coats.

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I like it more than Saylor.

This message was edited 5/12/2021, 5:48 PM

For some reason I like it, but I know I would never use it.

I don't really like it, sorry. :(
It sounds like "fawny".
However, I don't HATE names, only if they are inappropriate, like Titty, etc.

It’s my board handle on another site and is in reference to an owl. The leader of a brownie unit in the uk is brown owl. We also have Tawny Owl, Snowy Owl, Eagle Owl and Barn Owl (Barney).

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I have never met anyone called Tawny but I wouldn’t find it odd if I did. I don’t mind it.

I hate it. I don’t use “hate” for names often, but I really do. There’s something especially saccharine, sticky, sickly, sweet about it, and I picture an older blonde woman that just doesn’t have her life together. I much prefer, and actually like, Tansy though, which I think is kind of similar.

I'm not a big fan and I wouldn't use it. In certain texts "tawny" is used to describe skin color and in most cases it's meant in a derogatory way (I'm thinking like, older British plays or some American classics and can't get that connotation out of my view of the name)

I like it, it's more of an offbeat nature name but not unusable. Very sassy and spirited.

Don't like it at all

It's pretty.

It's exactly the kind of name chosen for herself by a woman famous mostly for looking sexy in music videos. So much so that it is almost unbelievable, like if you read it in a novel you'd roll your eyes at the clicheness of it.
It's like Bubbles that way.

Probably first used as a given named for the title character in the 1946 novel "Tawny" by Donald Henderson Clarke:

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13054084-tawny

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Not my style as a name -- I don't care for adjectives as given names, because of how they seem to create a meaningful phrase with the surname. But it certainly fits in with other modern names like Misty, Rowdy, and Precious.

It is cute. It sounds like the name of a woodland fairy in a children's story. Tinker Bell and Tawny went on an adventure. I wouldn't use it for a child, but I would use it for a character.

I’ve loved this name ever since I first heard it from “Even Stevens”

It's pretty tawdry. I kind of like it, although I wouldn't want to be a Tawny.

Cheese-y and kitschy. A cute pet name, though.