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Tabias vs Tabor

American parents have registered 814 Tabors since 1880, against 529 Tabiases. Tabor is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Tabias against Tabor, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Tabias Tabor

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 48 years in which either name was published, Tabor for 35 years and Tabias for 13 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

7 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Tabias Tabor
Total US births 529814
Most in one year 3740
Babies in 2025 under 56
Estimated living today 520800
Median age today 1622
Peak year 20181998
Best rank 3,106th boys2,599th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked10,695th
First recorded 19801961
Girls / boys 0 / 52987 / 727

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Tabors alive today are over 22; half the Tabiases are over 16. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Tabias and Tabor.