Girl · Aramaic
Tabitha
Say it: TAB-ih-thuh
Meaning
Aramaic ṭabitha, 'gazelle'; Acts 9:36 translates it into Greek as Dorcas.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Used by Puritans and given new life in the 1960s by the television series Bewitched.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1970s
In the United States
- 58,551 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1978, about 1 in 663 girls
- 159 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Biblical WorldAbout 1200 BC to AD 100
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Tabatha
| Spanish | Tabita |
|---|---|
| Italian | Tabita |
| German | Tabita |
| Portuguese | Tabita |
| Greek | Dorcas |
Famous bearers
- Tabitha, woman raised by Peter in Acts 9
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
- Puritan church and town records of England and New England
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- Colonial records of the Americas
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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