Tabbatha
Feminine · “gazelle”
Tabbatha doubles a letter in a name that means a gazelle. That animal did a particular job in the poetry of the ancient near east, and it did it in several languages at once.
How old is the name Tabbatha?
Tabbatha first appears in US birth records in 1966 — 59 years ago. The typical Tabbatha alive today was born around 1984, making them about 41 years old. About 700 people named Tabbatha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Tabbatha most popular?
Tabbatha peaked in 1984, reaching #2266 nationally. See the whole 1984 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Tabitha to Tabbatha
The story of Tabbatha
Gazelles turn up constantly in Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic poetry as the standard figure for grace, speed and beautiful eyes, and the comparison is used for men as well as women. The Song of Songs has the beloved leaping over hills like one. Arabic love poetry is so full of them that the word for a gazelle and the word for a love lyric are related. It is a specific and observable animal rather than a decorative one: small, fast, common in the region, and with very large eyes. Naming a child after it is paying a compliment that everybody in that world would have understood immediately.
Meaning
gazelle
The Aramaic word behind the name means a gazelle, and the reading is settled. Only the doubled letter in this spelling is unaccounted for.
How the name formed
- Tabitha
- Tabbatha
Pronouncing Tabbatha
TAB-ih-thuh
Three syllables with the stress in front. The doubled letter makes no audible difference.
Nicknames for Tabbatha
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
- 1966
- Most girls named
- 198844 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2266reached in 1984
- Change vs 2000
- −28.6%5 in 2004, from 7
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.
Tabbathas among us
people named Tabbatha are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Tabbatha sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled, concrete and pleasant to explain to a child.
- Tabby is available as a short form and is thoroughly familiar.
- The sound is completely familiar, so the name is never a puzzle to say.
- Tabitha is the standard spelling and this one will be corrected to it constantly.
- The short form is also a word for a cat, which children will find first.
- The doubled letter cannot be heard, so the spelling has to be given aloud every time.
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Frequently asked
- How many Tabbathas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Tabbatha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Tabbatha in 2025?
- Tabbatha is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Tabbatha with classmates?
- Tabbatha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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