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Tabari

Boy · tah-BAH-ree · Arabic

Tabari is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “from Tabaristan”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).

What does Tabari mean?

Arabic: Arabic surname meaning 'from Tabaristan', a region of northern Iran

“from Tabaristan”

Recalls al-Tabari, the 9th–10th-century Persian scholar famed for his history of the world and Quran commentary.

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tah-BAH-ree

Is Tabari a girl's or a boy's name?

Tabari is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Tabari in the US?

Rank in 2025
#12,003among boys
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 340,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Tabari, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2003, with 18 boys. It first appears in the records in 1973.

Half of all the boys named Tabari in the US since 1880 were born between 1981 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.

1973Busiest: 18 in 20032025
Tabari in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20255#12,003
20245#12,341
20237#9,757
20220–
202110#7,582
20206#10,599
20196#10,797
20180–
20176#10,770
20160–
20157#9,562
20149#8,124
201310#7,532
201211#7,044
20119#8,072
20108#8,797
200913#6,432
200811#7,182
200714#5,898
200617#5,068
200515#5,273
200414#5,487
200318#4,421
200214#5,124
20017#8,332
20009#6,832
19998#7,132
19986#8,472
19979#6,094
19967#7,129
19958#6,400
19947#6,962
19938#6,221
19926#7,414
199114#3,998
19907#6,408
19890–
19885#7,264
19870–
19866#5,920
19850–
19845#6,311
198310#3,882
19825#6,383
198117#2,678
198011#3,614
197912#3,356
197817#2,567
197716#2,664
19768#4,010
197515#2,635
197414#2,672
19738#3,692

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