girls:
58.9k births since 1880
#524 (91st percentile)
boys:
146 births since 1970
#4440 (3rd percentile)
overall:
59k births since 1880
#973 (87th percentile)
The name Tabitha is the #973 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 59,020 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 87.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #524 (90.8% percentile) for all time with 58,874 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,440 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 146 births since 1970.
Tabitha has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1970 for boys). Birth data for Tabitha is available in 133 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (133 years for girls and 17 years for boys). 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.
The name Tabitha has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Tabitha reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 83.8% percentile (ranked #123) with 1,405 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 1,405 births per million (ranked 83.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1986, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Tabitha ranks #810 for girls (14.5% percentile) with 81 births per million, which is 5.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Tabitha reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #666) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tabitha".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Tabitha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.5% confident that Tabitha is pronounced as TA-bih-thuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is tuh-BIH-thuh, at 20.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like T AE1 B IH0 TH AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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