Tabita
A girls’ name of Aramaic origin, meaning gazelle; a form of Tabitha.
Babies a year
6
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#3705
6 babies
Tabita by the numbers
In 2025, 6 babies in England and Wales were named Tabita.
Its American peak was 14 babies in 1977, making it a 1970s name.
Other names that come from Tabitha
Like Tabita, each of these traces back to Tabitha: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Tabita. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Tabithagazelle143 in England and Wales (2025)
- Talitayoung girl; maiden6 in the US (2017)
- Tabihagazelle; a form of Tabitha4 in England and Wales (2025)
- Taliagod's dew; form of Thalia or Natalia260 in England and Wales (2025)
- Taniafairy queen; a form of Tatiana186 in the US (2017)
- Taniyaworthy of praise; a modern respelling of Tanya58 in the US (2017)
Other names that mean a deer
Like Tabita, 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 Tabita
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