Tabetha

Where Tabetha comes from

The dictionaries list Tabetha as a given name — a female given name, variant of Tabitha — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1965
    First appearance
    #6,539 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1980
    Tabetha S. Boyajian born
    American astronomer
  3. 1984
    Peak, #784
    204 babies named Tabetha — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1992
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,713.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Tabitha.
Namesakes
  • Tabetha S. Boyajian · American astronomer, born 1980

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.