diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index f3d0c71..37705e3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ TBD
 
 * Remove dependency on terminaltables
 * Add psql_unicode table format
+* Add minimal table format
 
 Version 2.1.0
 -------------
diff --git a/cli_helpers/tabular_output/tabulate_adapter.py b/cli_helpers/tabular_output/tabulate_adapter.py
index 565b5a9..92e6f1d 100644
--- a/cli_helpers/tabular_output/tabulate_adapter.py
+++ b/cli_helpers/tabular_output/tabulate_adapter.py
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@
     with_header_hide=None,
 )
 
+# "minimal" is the same as "plain", but without headers
+tabulate._table_formats["minimal"] = tabulate._table_formats["plain"]
+
 supported_markup_formats = (
     "mediawiki",
     "html",
@@ -65,6 +68,7 @@
     "ascii",
     "plain",
     "simple",
+    "minimal",
     "grid",
     "fancy_grid",
     "pipe",
@@ -79,6 +83,7 @@
 supported_formats = supported_markup_formats + supported_table_formats
 
 default_kwargs = {"ascii": {"numalign": "left"}}
+headless_formats = ("minimal",)
 
 
 def get_preprocessors(format_name):
@@ -182,4 +187,6 @@ def adapter(data, headers, table_format=None, preserve_whitespace=False, **kwarg
     tabulate.PRESERVE_WHITESPACE = preserve_whitespace
 
     tkwargs.update(default_kwargs.get(table_format, {}))
+    if table_format in headless_formats:
+        headers = []
     return iter(tabulate.tabulate(data, headers, **tkwargs).split("\n"))
diff --git a/docs/source/quickstart.rst b/docs/source/quickstart.rst
index 77827df..319655d 100644
--- a/docs/source/quickstart.rst
+++ b/docs/source/quickstart.rst
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Let's get a list of all the supported format names::
     >>> from cli_helpers.tabular_output import TabularOutputFormatter
     >>> formatter = TabularOutputFormatter()
     >>> formatter.supported_formats
-    ('vertical', 'csv', 'tsv', 'mediawiki', 'html', 'latex', 'latex_booktabs', 'textile', 'moinmoin', 'jira', 'plain', 'simple', 'grid', 'fancy_grid', 'pipe', 'orgtbl', 'psql', 'psql_unicode', 'rst', 'ascii', 'double', 'github')
+    ('vertical', 'csv', 'tsv', 'mediawiki', 'html', 'latex', 'latex_booktabs', 'textile', 'moinmoin', 'jira', 'plain', 'minimal', 'simple', 'grid', 'fancy_grid', 'pipe', 'orgtbl', 'psql', 'psql_unicode', 'rst', 'ascii', 'double', 'github')
 
 You can format your data in any of those supported formats. Let's take the
 same data from our first example and put it in the ``fancy_grid`` format::
diff --git a/tests/tabular_output/test_output_formatter.py b/tests/tabular_output/test_output_formatter.py
index 77d0afb..d064427 100644
--- a/tests/tabular_output/test_output_formatter.py
+++ b/tests/tabular_output/test_output_formatter.py
@@ -114,6 +114,21 @@ def test_format_name_attribute():
         formatter.format_name = "foobar"
 
 
+def test_headless_tabulate_format():
+    """Test that a headless formatter doesn't display headers"""
+    formatter = TabularOutputFormatter(format_name="minimal")
+    headers = ["text", "numeric"]
+    data = [["a"], ["b"], ["c"]]
+    expected = "a\nb\nc"
+    assert expected == "\n".join(
+        TabularOutputFormatter().format_output(
+            iter(data),
+            headers,
+            format_name="minimal",
+        )
+    )
+
+
 def test_unsupported_format():
     """Test that TabularOutputFormatter rejects unknown formats."""
     formatter = TabularOutputFormatter()