How rare is the name Tabitha?

50,189 people in the United States have the first name Tabitha, about 1 in 6,018. It ranks #897 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

TABITHA

#897

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
50,189
About
1 in 6,018
This common or more
68.5%
Who bears it

Of the 50,189 people named Tabitha, 73.7% reported their origin as White, 11.6% as Black and 7.3% 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.

Tabitha peaked in 1978, when 2,324 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1978
Births that year
2,324
In 2025*
171 ▼93%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 59,346 babies have been given the name since 1880. 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.

Tabitha by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #301. The largest share of babies named Tabitha, 47.5%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1880s#1,71850
1890s#1,88073
1900s#2,82344
1910s#4,25795
1920s#5,93883
1930s#5,79766
1940s#5,89274
1950s#4,665150
1960s#1,1372,409
1970s#41912,006
1980s#30119,660
1990s#44213,690
2000s#8496,843
2010s#1,6073,163
2020s#2,634940
Before 19010.2%
Greatest Generation 1901–270.4%
Silent Generation 1928–450.2%
Baby boom 1946–640.5%
Generation X 1965–8027.1%
Millennials 1981–9647.5%
Generation Z 1997–1219.3%
2013 and later4.8%

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 Tabitha is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Tabitha has been most common in Tennessee (2.1×), Kentucky (2×), and North Carolina (1.6×), and least common in District of Columbia (0.23×).

56,451 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.

Either side of Tabitha

#895 Kirsten · 50,529#896 Doug · 50,315#898 Elsa · 50,134#899 Ivy · 50,093

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Tabitha, most common first.

#1,879 Tabatha · 15,280#5,472 Tabetha · 3,131#18,083 Tabbitha · 600#18,716 Tabbatha · 573#19,459 Tabita · 543#22,492 Tavita · 442#23,042 Tabytha · 428#39,013 Tabata · 195

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