first name
TABATHA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 15,280 people named Tabatha, 74.2% reported their origin as White, 12.2% as Black and 7.7% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Tabatha peaked in 1983, when 837 babies got the name.
At least 19,409 babies have been given the name since 1965. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Tabatha by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #631. The largest share of babies named Tabatha, 47.5%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Tabatha is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tabatha has been most common in Kentucky (2.4×), Georgia (2×), and Alabama (2×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.26×).
17,363 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Tabatha, most common first.
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