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Tabatha vs Tabias

American parents have registered 19,409 Tabathas since 1880, against 529 Tabiases. Tabatha is still ahead, with 11 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tabatha against Tabias, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tabatha Tabias

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 61 years in which either name was published, Tabatha for 55 years and Tabias for 6 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Tabatha Tabias
Total US births 19,409529
Most in one year 83737
Babies in 2025 11under 5
Estimated living today 19,000520
Median age today 4216
Peak year 19832018
Best rank 282nd girls3,106th boys
Rank in 2025 8,860thunranked
First recorded 19651980
Girls / boys 19,409 / 00 / 529

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tabathas alive today are over 42; half the Tabiases are over 16. That is 26 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tabatha and Tabias.