Tabitha

Where Tabitha comes from

From Aramaic טביתא (Ṭabītā’, “doe, roe, gazelle”), translated as Dorcas in the Bible.
— Wiktionary's entry for Tabitha
  • Aramaic
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1779
    Tabitha Babbitt born
    American tool maker
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #628 among girls — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1964
    Tabitha St. Germain born
    Canadian actress
  4. 1978
    Peak, #126
    2,309 babies named Tabitha — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1998
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #281.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Aramaic of biblical origin.
Namesakes
  • Tabitha St. Germain · Canadian actress, born 1964
  • Tabitha Babbitt · American tool maker, 1779–1853
  • Tabitha King · American writer, born 1949
  • Tabitha Chawinga · Malawian association football player, born 1996
  • Tabitha Stoecker · British skeleton racer, born 2000

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.