Tabitha
Tabitha is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 142 births. Its best rank was 126th, in 1978.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1420.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19782,310 births
- Best rank
- #126in 1978
- Since 1880
- 59,024people given the name
The story in the numbers
59,024 girls have been named Tabitha in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1978, with 2,310 births — 0.15% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1987, and the 1980s alone account for 33%. It has spent 57 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Tabitha | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 50 | |
| 1890s | 73 | |
| 1900s | 44 | |
| 1910s | 95 | |
| 1920s | 83 | |
| 1930s | 66 | |
| 1940s | 74 | |
| 1950s | 150 | |
| 1960s | 2,409 | |
| 1970s | 11,948 | |
| 1980s | 19,578 | |
| 1990s | 13,685 | |
| 2000s | 6,843 | |
| 2010s | 3,161 | |
| 2020s | 765 |
In 1978, its biggest year
Tabitha was the 126th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1978 were Jennifer, Melissa, Jessica, Amy and Heather. See all of 1978.
Names that rose and fell with Tabitha
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Aricapeak 1982
- Nicolepeak 1985
- Cameopeak 1992
- Natashapeak 1987
- Taishapeak 1984
- Erinnpeak 1990
- Neishapeak 1980
- Karapeak 1991
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.