Tab
Tab was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 1,110 Americans have been recorded with it between 1953 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tab by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tab?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,791, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
120 babies in 1957, the peak
Tab peaked in 1957, when 120 boys were given it, #697 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #13,791 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,586 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,859 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,693 | 3.7 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,568 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,442 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,329 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,533 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,414 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,196 | 5.9 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 9 | #4,793 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,431 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,902 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,125 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,542 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,152 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 12 | #3,588 | 6.7 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,784 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,512 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,121 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,516 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,911 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,803 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 8 | #4,016 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,233 | 11.1 |
| 1971 | 18 | #2,271 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 30 | #1,574 | 16.1 |
| 1969 | 21 | #1,853 | 11.7 |
| 1968 | 21 | #1,777 | 12.1 |
| 1967 | 38 | #1,229 | 21.8 |
| 1966 | 43 | #1,146 | 24.1 |
| 1965 | 47 | #1,089 | 25.3 |
| 1964 | 42 | #1,196 | 21.1 |
| 1963 | 50 | #1,088 | 24.6 |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,165 | 21.8 |
| 1961 | 51 | #1,103 | 24.0 |
| 1960 | 67 | #924 | 31.4 |
| 1959 | 89 | #811 | 41.7 |
| 1958 | 80 | #845 | 37.7 |
| 1957 | 120 | #697 | 55.6 |
| 1956 | 69 | #904 | 32.6 |
| 1955 | 43 | #1,151 | 20.9 |
| 1954 | 13 | #2,306 | 6.4 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,761 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Tab a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tab has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tab: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tab, and how old are they?
An estimated 880 Americans named Tab and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 56 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,041 people named Tab (134 women and girls, 907 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 943 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,171 babies since 1880, Tab is the most given (95% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tab
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tab and names like it
- Compare Tab and TabbBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sTab peaked in 1957.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tab since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Tab.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Tab alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.