Tabitha

Gender Feminine
Scripts Pron. /ˈtæb.ɪ.θə/ (English) [key ·simplify]

Meaning & History

Means "gazelle" in Aramaic. Tabitha in the New Testament was a woman restored to life by Saint Peter. Her name is translated into Greek as Dorcas (see Acts 9:36). As an English name, Tabitha became common after the Protestant Reformation. It was popularized in the 1960s by the television show Bewitched, in which Tabitha (sometimes spelled Tabatha) is the daughter of the main character [2] .

Related Names

VariantTabatha (English)
DiminutivesTabby, Tibby (English)
Other Languages & CulturesTabita (Biblical Latin) Tabea (German)

Popularity

People think this name is

classic formal upper class natural wholesome refined strange complex
  1. Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry g5000, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=g5000.
  2. Evans, Cleveland Kent. The Great Big Book of Baby Names. Publications International, 2006, page 583.

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