Tabatha
Feminine · “gazelle”
Tabatha is a gazelle. Tabitha is named in Acts as a woman raised from the dead by Peter, and the text helpfully translates her name into Greek as Dorcas — both words mean the same animal.
How old is the name Tabatha?
Tabatha first appears in US birth records in 1965 — 60 years ago. The typical Tabatha alive today was born around 1983, making them about 42 years old. About 18,500 people named Tabatha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tabatha most popular?
Tabatha peaked in 1983, reaching #282 nationally. Today it ranks #8860, 8,578 places below that high. See the whole 1983 chart.
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Where it comes from
From tabitha to Tabatha
The story of Tabatha
Tabitha entered English use through the Reformation, when New Testament names became available to ordinary families, and stayed in modest use for centuries. It rose sharply in America in the 1960s after a television comedy gave the name to a child character, and the respellings followed at once — Tabatha, Tabotha, Tabbatha. Tabatha peaked in the mid-1970s.
Meaning
gazelle
From the Aramaic tabitha, 'gazelle'. The Book of Acts glosses it for Greek readers as Dorcas, which is the Greek for the same animal — an unusually explicit piece of translation that removes all doubt about the meaning.
How the name formed
- tabitha
- Tabitha
- Tabatha
Related forms: Tabitha · Dorcas · Tabitha
Pronouncing Tabatha
TAB-uh-thuh
Three syllables, stress on the first, th as in 'thin'. Tabatha and Tabitha are said identically.
Nicknames for Tabatha
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1965
- Most girls named
- 1983837 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #282reached in 1983
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%11 in 2025, from 11
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Tabatha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Tabitha in English — spelling variant
- Dorcas in Greek — related form
- Tabitha in Aramaic — same name
Tabathas among us
people named Tabatha are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 146,115 born in 2025 was named Tabatha
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Sybil test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Tabatha's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sybil climbed just as high around 1919, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sybil's path sketches the road Tabatha is walking now.
Tabatha sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Tabatha beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Tabatha in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is concrete and the New Testament translates it for you, which almost no other name can claim.
- Three syllables with a front stress, which holds up against a short surname.
- It has a documented biblical bearer with a memorable story.
- Tabitha is the standard spelling and this one will read as a variant to most people.
- The short form Tabby is the ordinary English word for a cat.
- It is closely dated to the 1970s in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tabathas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 18,500 people named Tabatha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tabatha in 2025?
- Tabatha ranks #8860 among US girl names in 2025, with 11 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Tabatha?
- About 1 in every 146,115 US girls born in 2025 was named Tabatha — 11 in all.
- Will my child share the name Tabatha with classmates?
- Tabatha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Tabatha
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