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Tabbatha vs Tabetha

American parents have registered 3,917 Tabethas since 1880, against 748 Tabbathas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tabbatha against Tabetha, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tabbatha Tabetha

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

Tabetha has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1965 to 2016. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1990, when Tabbatha had 36 and Tabetha had 112.

Side by side

  Tabbatha Tabetha
Total US births 7483,917
Most in one year 44204
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 7203,800
Median age today 4141
Peak year 19881984
Best rank 2,447th girls784th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19661965
Girls / boys 748 / 03,917 / 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.

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