girls:
87 births since 1991
#5629 (1st percentile)
boys:
708 births since 1961
#3879 (15th percentile)
overall:
795 births since 1961
#6944 (10th percentile)
The name Tabor is the #6,944 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 795 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 10.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,879 (15.4% percentile) for all time with 708 births since 1961. For girls, it ranks #5,629 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 87 births since 1991.
Tabor first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (1961 for boys and 1991 for girls). Birth data for Tabor is available in 46 out of the 63 years between 1961 and 2023 (46 years for boys and 13 years for girls). 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 Tabor has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Tabor were boys.
For boys, Tabor reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 3.4% percentile (ranked #768) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Tabor ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 34.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Tabor reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #858) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tabor".
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