How popular is the name Tabatha?

Tabatha ranks 928th among girls' names in US records, with 20,151 births since 1965. Over the past decade it accounts for 132.

Is Tabatha a unisex name?

No. Tabatha is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1983, when 872 children were given the name. It has been in use for 60 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Tabbatha. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#928 of girl names

Pronounced T AE1 B AE1 TH AH0 (ARPABET)

Tabatha is a girls' name, and first appears in 1965. It has been given to 20,151 children — the 928th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 132 births across the past decade, against a peak of 872 in a single year. That peak was in 1983.

Tabbatha is counted with it here, since the two are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Tabatha and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Tabatha?: Tabatha ranks 928th among girls' names in US records, with 20,151 births since 1965. Over the past decade it accounts for 132.
Is Tabatha a unisex name?: No. Tabatha is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Tabatha most popular?: 1983, when 872 children were given the name. It has been in use for 60 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Tabatha spelled?: Tabbatha. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.