Tabatha
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births
- Peak · girls
- 1983 · 837 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 19,409since 1965
Tabatha over time
Rank among girls' names. Tabatha has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 |
| 2022 | #6,984 | 16 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 |
| 2017 | #6,531 | 18 |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 |
| 2015 | #4,981 | 27 |
| 2014 | #5,625 | 23 |
| 2013 | #4,243 | 34 |
| 2012 | #3,988 | 38 |
| 2011 | #4,151 | 35 |
| 2010 | #3,203 | 51 |
| 2009 | #3,361 | 49 |
| 2008 | #3,222 | 52 |
| 2007 | #3,247 | 52 |
| 2006 | #2,438 | 76 |
| 2005 | #2,379 | 74 |
| 2004 | #2,030 | 90 |
| 2003 | #1,896 | 96 |
| 2002 | #1,780 | 101 |
| 2001 | #1,660 | 109 |
| 2000 | #1,134 | 180 |
| 1999 | #1,071 | 187 |
| 1998 | #1,123 | 171 |
| 1997 | #970 | 202 |
| 1996 | #879 | 224 |
| 1995 | #770 | 262 |
| 1994 | #658 | 325 |
| 1993 | #658 | 338 |
| 1992 | #600 | 379 |
| 1991 | #486 | 497 |
| 1990 | #416 | 614 |
| 1989 | #427 | 581 |
| 1988 | #357 | 693 |
| 1987 | #363 | 653 |
| 1986 | #338 | 713 |
| 1985 | #297 | 828 |
| 1984 | #290 | 832 |
| 1983 | #282 | 837 |
| 1982 | #305 | 800 |
| 1981 | #365 | 641 |
| 1980 | #340 | 711 |
| 1979 | #381 | 582 |
| 1978 | #403 | 512 |
| 1977 | #386 | 544 |
| 1976 | #346 | 618 |
| 1975 | #410 | 491 |
| 1974 | #443 | 438 |
| 1973 | #418 | 468 |
| 1972 | #403 | 492 |
| 1971 | #398 | 543 |
| 1970 | #401 | 585 |
| 1969 | #355 | 657 |
| 1968 | #328 | 702 |
| 1967 | #376 | 581 |
| 1966 | #418 | 500 |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tabatha! It came in at #6,539, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2021, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Tabatha
- 86 spots since 2024 (#8,946 → #8,860)
- 454 spots since 2020 (#8,406 → #8,860)
- 3,879 spots since 2015 (#4,981 → #8,860)
- Biggest jump: 6,121 spots in 1966 (#6,539 → #418)
- Biggest drop: 153 spots in 1998 (#970 → #1,123)
- Debuted 1965
- Peaked 1983 at #282 (837 births)
- Births halved by 1992, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1966–1997
- Highest: 1 in 1,996 girls born in 1983 were named Tabatha (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 146,115 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 37.6% of all girls named Tabatha (7,289) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2,445 | #328 (1968) | #1,603 |
| 1970s | 5,273 | #346 (1976) | #399 |
| 1980s | 7,289 | #282 (1983) | #336 |
| 1990s | 3,199 | #416 (1990) | #763 |
| 2000s | 879 | #1,134 (2000) | #2,315 |
| 2010s | 263 | #3,203 (2010) | #5,884 |
| 2020s | 61 | #6,984 (2022) | #8,437 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tabatha in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 2,992 of them was named Tabatha, which outranked 96.5% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.