Tabatha

Where Tabatha comes from

Variant of Tabitha.
— Wiktionary's entry for Tabatha
  • Hebrew
  • Vowel-ended
Tabatha through the years
  1. 1965
    First appearance
    #6,539 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1966
    Around this time: Bewitched
    TV, 1966 · Source
  3. 1969
    Tabatha Coffey born
    Australian hairstylist
  4. 1983
    Peak, #282
    837 babies named Tabatha, the most in any year.
  5. 1992
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #600.
  6. 1998
    Tabatha Saville born
    cricketer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Tabatha Coffey · Australian hairstylist, born 1969
  • Tabatha Saville · cricketer, born 1998
  • Tabatha Badger · Australian politician

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record. Events show what happened around then, not why parents chose the name.