Tabatha
A girls’ name of Aramaic origin, meaning gazelle; a form of Tabitha.
Babies a year
18
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list
Tabatha by the numbers
Tabatha was given to 18 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 837 babies in 1983, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Tabatha. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a deer
Like Tabatha, each of these has a deer in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Devynfawn-like; a modern respelling of Devin313 in the US (2017)
- Raleighdeer meadow or clearing235 in the US (2017)
- Rayleighdeer meadow or clearing; a respelling of Raleigh187 in the US (2017)
- Fiadhwild, woodland deer182 in England and Wales (2025)
- Hartleyhart meadow; deer clearing157 in the US (2017)
- Darbydeer settlement or farm with deer144 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Tabatha
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