Tabatha
Tabatha was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,391 among girls’ names; 19,409 Americans have been recorded with it since 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 18,500 Americans named Tabatha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 37 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tabatha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tabatha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tabatha is “a female given name from Hebrew.”
Variant of Tabitha.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tabatha?
#9,391 among girls’ names, 2025
Tabatha fell from #5,109 in 2015 to #9,391 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.1 to 6.8 per million.
837 babies in 1983, the peak
Tabatha peaked in 1983, when 837 girls were given it, #282 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,391 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 11 | #9,491 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,532 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,248 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,896 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,397 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,743 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,773 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,559 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,109 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 23 | #5,777 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,324 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 38 | #4,039 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,232 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,251 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,401 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,260 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,285 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 76 | #2,458 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 74 | #2,402 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 90 | #2,038 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 96 | #1,911 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 101 | #1,788 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 109 | #1,667 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 180 | #1,136 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 187 | #1,074 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 171 | #1,123 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 202 | #969 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 224 | #884 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 262 | #770 | 0.15 |
| 1994 | 325 | #659 | 0.18 |
| 1993 | 338 | #661 | 0.19 |
| 1992 | 379 | #600 | 0.21 |
| 1991 | 497 | #487 | 0.27 |
| 1990 | 614 | #416 | 0.32 |
| 1989 | 581 | #427 | 0.32 |
| 1988 | 693 | #357 | 0.39 |
| 1987 | 653 | #363 | 0.38 |
| 1986 | 713 | #338 | 0.42 |
| 1985 | 828 | #297 | 0.48 |
| 1984 | 832 | #290 | 0.49 |
| 1983 | 837 | #282 | 0.50 |
| 1982 | 800 | #306 | 0.47 |
| 1981 | 641 | #366 | 0.38 |
| 1980 | 711 | #340 | 0.43 |
| 1979 | 582 | #381 | 0.36 |
| 1978 | 512 | #403 | 0.33 |
| 1977 | 544 | #386 | 0.35 |
| 1976 | 618 | #346 | 0.42 |
| 1975 | 491 | #411 | 0.34 |
| 1974 | 438 | #443 | 0.30 |
| 1973 | 468 | #420 | 0.32 |
| 1972 | 492 | #403 | 0.32 |
| 1971 | 543 | #398 | 0.33 |
| 1970 | 585 | #401 | 0.33 |
| 1969 | 657 | #355 | 0.39 |
| 1968 | 702 | #328 | 0.43 |
| 1967 | 581 | #378 | 0.35 |
| 1966 | 500 | #418 | 0.30 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,403 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tabatha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tabatha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tabatha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tabatha, and how old are they?
18,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 19,409 Americans ever recorded as Tabatha. The median Tabatha alive today is 43 years old; half are between 37 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 15,280 people named Tabatha (15,263 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 18,709 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 7,840 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,940 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,540 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 199 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Tabatha born?
The states with the most babies named Tabatha are Texas, California and Florida, with 20% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,293 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 1,140 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 1,050 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 1,050 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 1,004 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| North Carolina | 879 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| New York | 829 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 748 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Kentucky | 739 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Illinois | 718 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Tabatha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tabatha is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1965 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tabatha with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 85,007 babies since 1880, Tabatha is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 182 babies (6.0%), again the second most given.
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 Tabatha
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 Tabatha and names like it
- Compare Tabatha and TabithaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTabatha peaked in 1983.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tabatha since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Tabatha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Tabatha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tabatha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.