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Tabea

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; the Bible origin

Tabea has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Tabea, 2016

1 in 734,000

Tabea over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tabea: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; the Bible origin

the Bible

What Tabea means

Tabea is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Tabea is used in German. Its origins include the Bible.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Tabea between 1915 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1915; its best national rank was #4,874 in 1915.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tabea?

Tabea had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 354,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tabea sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tabea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tabeas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tabea was born before 1915 — so the typical Tabea is around 110 today.

Median birth year
1915
About 110 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5
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1910s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Tabea rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1915 (5)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,874
1915

Spellings of Tabea

Tabea is not the most common spelling — Tara is, with 24.3% against Tabea's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Tabea around the world

Where Tabea ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    1995–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Tabea by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,874
1915
Peak year
1915
5 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tabea

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Tabea

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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