Tab is a male first name.
Recently, the name Tab has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Tab. That means that a boy named Tab is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Tab.
Is the name Tab a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Chosen by 120 parents, the name was given most frequently in 1957 – at that time, it ranked #631. It thus experienced its last peak in a world without internet and cell phones, even before the first personal computer was built. (Do you remember? Those were those big boxes that couldn't even begin to do what a simple robot vacuum cleaner can do today). Since Tab is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always come up with the idea of giving their baby boy this unusual name. So, if your name is Tab, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, you stand out with your name these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Tab was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Tab born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn boys with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Tab born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
The odds of having a man or boy named Tab in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Tab is registered in 10 states, among which are California, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan or Minnesota. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Tab live in Ohio, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 153,118 men and boys in Ohio for their name before you meet one who answers with Tab.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names. That’s because 6.3% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With only three letters, the name Tab is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 6.3% of all boys' names that begin with the letter T, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Thomas is the boys’ name starting with T, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Tab and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Tab, you can simply say:
Tiger
Apple
Butterfly
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Tab
Tab
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
A
B
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
T
A
B
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Tab sounds like this:
