Tab
The boy's name Tab has been in the national records since 1953, with 1,110 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2015. About 890 Tabs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Tab
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,110
- Estimated living today
- 890
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1957
- Best rank
- 694th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1953
How old the living Tabs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,110 babies given the name since 1953, about 890 are alive — 80 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Tabs
- Tab Hunter (1931–2018)American actor and singer
- Tab Ramos (born 1966)American soccer player and manager
People named Tab with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Tab is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Tab is most concentrated in Ohio (4.5×), California (2.5×), Illinois (1.9×), Pennsylvania (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1957
The most popular boys’ names the year Tab peaked:
Related names
Tab against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.