Tabetha
Tabetha was last recorded in 2016, when 6 babies were given it; 3,917 Americans have been recorded with it between 1965 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,760 Americans named Tabetha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 36 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tabetha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tabetha mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tabetha is “a female given name, variant of Tabitha.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tabetha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,018, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
204 babies in 1984, the peak
Tabetha peaked in 1984, when 204 girls were given it, #788 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 6 | #16,018 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,812 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,913 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,312 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,474 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,417 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 12 | #10,010 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,060 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,325 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,413 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 20 | #6,181 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,648 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,369 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,537 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,390 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 44 | #3,037 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 52 | #2,644 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 64 | #2,170 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 71 | #1,987 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 71 | #1,949 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 84 | #1,748 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 60 | #2,211 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 87 | #1,725 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 115 | #1,402 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 112 | #1,418 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 121 | #1,307 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 162 | #1,013 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 145 | #1,063 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 172 | #927 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 193 | #845 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 204 | #788 | 0.12 |
| 1983 | 180 | #852 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 152 | #978 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 131 | #1,078 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 112 | #1,193 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 113 | #1,176 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 103 | #1,220 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 110 | #1,152 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 100 | #1,159 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 104 | #1,126 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 86 | #1,266 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 79 | #1,301 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 85 | #1,241 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 79 | #1,362 | 0.05 |
| 1970 | 89 | #1,256 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 98 | #1,123 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 94 | #1,109 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 85 | #1,154 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 65 | #1,366 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,404 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tabetha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tabetha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tabetha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tabetha, and how old are they?
3,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,917 Americans ever recorded as Tabetha. The median Tabetha alive today is 42 years old; half are between 36 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 3,131 people named Tabetha (3,129 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,799 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 | 1,310 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 429 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 16 |
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 Tabetha born?
The states with the most babies named Tabetha are Texas, California and Ohio, with 34% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 234 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 232 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 169 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 147 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 147 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 112 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 98 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 93 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 88 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 86 | not ranked | 0.8× |
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 Tabetha 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, Tabetha is the third most given (4.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 182 babies recorded by SSA was a Tabetha (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Tabetha
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 Tabetha and names like it
- Compare Tabetha and TabithaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sTabetha peaked in 1984.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tabetha since 1910.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Tabetha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tabetha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.