Tabby

Where Tabby comes from

Diminutive + -y.
— Wiktionary's entry for Tabby
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1955
    First appearance
    #5,828 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1966
    Peak, #3,040
    17 babies named Tabby — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1968
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #5,147.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Tabitha.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Tabetha.
Namesakes

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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.