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Tabbatha vs Tabbitha

American parents have registered 748 Tabbathas since 1880, against 699 Tabbithas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tabbatha against Tabbitha, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tabbatha Tabbitha

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 46 years in which either name was published, Tabbatha for 23 years and Tabbitha for 23 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Tabbatha Tabbitha
Total US births 748699
Most in one year 4442
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 720680
Median age today 4135
Peak year 19881991
Best rank 2,447th girls2,790th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19661966
Girls / boys 748 / 0699 / 0

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 Tabbathas alive today are over 41; half the Tabbithas are over 35. That is 6 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: Tabbatha and Tabbitha.