# Tabetha (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tabetha/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | Tabby |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,917 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 3,917 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 94, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 40 | 3,395 |
| 2001 | 38 | 3,541 |
| 2002 | 29 | 4,373 |
| 2003 | 28 | 4,653 |
| 2004 | 20 | 6,185 |
| 2005 | 24 | 5,418 |
| 2006 | 21 | 6,327 |
| 2007 | 19 | 7,064 |
| 2008 | 12 | 10,014 |
| 2009 | 15 | 8,421 |
| 2010 | 17 | 7,477 |
| 2011 | 11 | 10,316 |
| 2014 | 5 | 18,919 |
| 2015 | 5 | 18,818 |
| 2016 | 6 | 16,023 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 3 | 3,998 |
| 2003 | 7 | 2,436 |
| 2005 | 6 | 2,970 |
| 2006 | 3 | 5,061 |
| 2007 | 7 | 2,895 |
| 2008 | 4 | 4,524 |
| 2009 | 3 | 5,556 |
| 2010 | 7 | 3,156 |
| 2011 | 4 | 4,764 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5,876 |
| 2013 | 9 | 2,649 |
| 2014 | 6 | 3,514 |
| 2016 | 5 | 4,096 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |

## People named Tabetha

- Tabetha S. Boyajian, American astronomer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.