Tabatha

#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births

Peak · girls
1983 · 837 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
19,409
since 1965

Tabatha over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Tabatha has never cracked the top 200 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201965peak #282, 1983girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#8,86011
2024#8,94611
2023#8,98911
2022#6,98416
2021—
2020#8,40612
2019#9,73610
2018#9,15111
2017#6,53118
2016#7,23016
2015#4,98127
2014#5,62523
2013#4,24334
2012#3,98838
2011#4,15135
2010#3,20351
2009#3,36149
2008#3,22252
2007#3,24752
2006#2,43876
2005#2,37974
2004#2,03090
2003#1,89696
2002#1,780101
2001#1,660109
2000#1,134180
1999#1,071187
1998#1,123171
1997#970202
1996#879224
1995#770262
1994#658325
1993#658338
1992#600379
1991#486497
1990#416614
1989#427581
1988#357693
1987#363653
1986#338713
1985#297828
1984#290832
1983#282837
1982#305800
1981#365641
1980#340711
1979#381582
1978#403512
1977#386544
1976#346618
1975#410491
1974#443438
1973#418468
1972#403492
1971#398543
1970#401585
1969#355657
1968#328702
1967#376581
1966#418500
1965#6,5395
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First appearance
1965

The first year at least five girls were named Tabatha! It came in at #6,539, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2021, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Tabatha is popular in 1965

No state had 5 or more girls named Tabatha in 1965, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Tabatha
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 86 spots since 2024 (#8,946 → #8,860)
  • 454 spots since 2020 (#8,406 → #8,860)
  • 3,879 spots since 2015 (#4,981 → #8,860)
  • Biggest jump: 6,121 spots in 1966 (#6,539 → #418)
  • Biggest drop: 153 spots in 1998 (#970 → #1,123)
Rise & fade · girls
18 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1965
  • Peaked 1983 at #282 (837 births)
  • Births halved by 1992, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 32 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1966–1997
Share of babies · girls
1 in 1,996
  • Highest: 1 in 1,996 girls born in 1983 were named Tabatha (0.05%)
  • Latest: 1 in 146,115 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1980s
  • 37.6% of all girls named Tabatha (7,289) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s2,445#328 (1968)#1,603
1970s5,273#346 (1976)#399
1980s7,289#282 (1983)#336
1990s3,199#416 (1990)#763
2000s879#1,134 (2000)#2,315
2010s263#3,203 (2010)#5,884
2020s61#6,984 (2022)#8,437

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Tabatha in 1965

girls
#6,539
5 births · 1 in 353,033 girls

Top girls' names in 1965

  1. #1Lisa60,271
  2. #2Mary34,270
  3. #3Karen32,869
  4. #4Kimberly28,836
  5. #5Susan26,321
  6. #6Patricia23,552
  7. #7Donna19,700
  8. #8Linda19,345
  9. #9Cynthia19,239
  10. #10Angela18,754
  11. #6,539Tabatha5
More about 1965

girls

1,765,164 girls got a published name in 1965; 1 in 353,033 of them was named Tabatha, which outranked 13.2% of the 7,535 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Tabatha
  1. #5,817Yuvonne6
  2. #5,817Zeola6
  3. #5,817Zeta6
  4. #6,539Tabatha5
  5. #6,539Abbigail5
  6. #6,539Abelina5
  7. #6,539Adilia5

Tied with 996 names at #6,539; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1964
Risers
  1. ↑ 723Marni#1,610 → #887
  2. ↑ 654Dionne#1,281 → #627
  3. ↑ 432Marnie#1,016 → #584
  4. ↑ 426Keli#1,383 → #957
  5. ↑ 368Gia#1,334 → #966
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,326Djuna#738 → #2,064
  2. ↓ 470Djuana#756 → #1,226
  3. ↓ 383Shirl#714 → #1,097
  4. ↓ 297Beverley#955 → #1,252
  5. ↓ 275Dottie#912 → #1,187

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1965 →