boys:
1.1k births since 1953
#3492 (24th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1953
#6629 (14th percentile)
The name Tab is the #6,629 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,110 recorded births since 1953. This represents the 14.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,492 (23.8% percentile) for all time with 1,110 births since 1953.
Tab first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1953 (first recorded for boys in 1953). Birth data for Tab is available in 44 out of the 63 years between 1953 and 2015. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Tab reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 17.2% percentile (ranked #545) with 55 births per million. The name was most common in 1957, with 55 births per million (ranked 17.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tab".
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