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Tabetha

Girls' name

Doe, roe, gazelle, through Tabitha

Tabetha has been given to 3,917 babies in the U.S. since 1965. 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 1984, with 204 recorded.

Babies named Tabetha, 2016

1 in 612,000

Tabetha 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tabetha: meaning, origin, and history

Doe, roe, gazelle, through Tabitha

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tabetha means

Tabetha belongs to the name family reached through Tabetha → Tabitha. Its meaning is “doe, roe, gazelle”.

Origin, language, and formation

Tabetha is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tabitha.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,917 girls were recorded with the name Tabetha between 1965 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 204 in 1984; its best national rank was #788 in 1984.

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 Tabetha?

Tabetha 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 612,000
6 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 295,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
423,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tabetha 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 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tabetha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tabethas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tabetha was born before 1984 — so the typical Tabetha is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
40.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,917
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 40.1% of all recorded uses (1,572).

Is Tabetha 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1984 (204)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#788
1984

Spellings of Tabetha

Tabetha is not the most common spelling — Tabitha is, with 52.7% against Tabetha's 3.5%.

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.

Where Tabetha is used

Across 1910–2025, Tabetha was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 77,353 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 33,333
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 33,333
  3. 3Georgia1 in 50,000
  4. 4Indiana1 in 50,000
  5. 5Kentucky1 in 50,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 50,000
  7. 7Missouri1 in 50,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tabetha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tabetha around the world

Where Tabetha 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2018
    #5,666
    in 2018
  • Canada
    1992–1994
    #2,260
    in 1994
  • South Australia
    1973–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Tabetha

People whose public names include Tabetha, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tabetha 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
—
Best rank ever
#788
1984
Peak year
1984
204 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
3,917
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tabetha

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

TabathaTabithaTabythaTabbathaTabbithaTabbethaTalithaSamathaDorothaTamathaAgathaTabaithaLorethaDorethaArlethaAnvithaTabiathaAlberthaEarthaArethaReathaLeathaDorthaAletha

Names with a curve like Tabetha

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tabetha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Tabetha

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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