Tabytha
Tabytha was last recorded in 2014, when 7 babies were given it; 491 Americans have been recorded with it between 1982 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tabytha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tabytha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,404, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 2000, the peak
Tabytha peaked in 2000, when 31 girls were given it, #4,063 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | #14,404 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,973 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,653 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,658 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,383 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,836 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,065 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,737 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,570 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,732 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 10 | #10,588 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 20 | #6,022 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 16 | #7,005 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,284 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,063 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,426 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,351 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,492 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,745 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,189 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,689 | 16.8 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,431 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,270 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,932 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 19 | #5,034 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,511 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,277 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,578 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,537 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,724 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,118 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,089 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tabytha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tabytha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tabytha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tabytha, and how old are they?
An estimated 483 Americans named Tabytha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 22 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 428 people named Tabytha (428 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 485 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Tabytha?
Tabytha is a less common spelling of Tabitha: SSA has recorded 491 Tabytha and 59,346 Tabitha since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 85,007 babies since 1880, Tabytha is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 182 babies recorded by SSA was a Tabytha (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 Tabytha
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 Tabytha and names like it
- Compare Tabytha and TabithaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sTabytha peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tabytha since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Tabytha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Tabytha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with TMost given first.