Tabitha
A girls’ name of Aramaic origin, meaning gazelle.
How Tabitha has moved
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| Year | US rank |
|---|---|
| 2015 | #943 |
| 2016 | #933 |
Tabitha by the numbers
In 2025, 143 babies in England and Wales were named Tabitha. In the US, 239 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 2,309 babies in 1978, so it is a 1970s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Tabitha. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Talithalittle girl; maiden (talitha koum in biblical aramaic)13 in England and Wales (2025)
- Tabathagazelle; a form of Tabitha18 in the US (2017)
- Tabitagazelle; a form of Tabitha6 in England and Wales (2025)
- Tabihagazelle; a form of Tabitha4 in England and Wales (2025)
- Tabethagazelle; a form of Tabitha
- Tanishaambition or desire; a form of Tanvi12 in England and Wales (2025)
Other names that mean a deer
Like Tabitha, 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 Tabitha
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