Entry № 10235 · Aramaic origin

Tabitha Tabitha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TAB-ih-thah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Aramaic
Meaning
"Gazelle"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (New Testament)

A name that means "gazelle".

Tabitha comes from the Aramaic tabitha (טביתא), meaning "gazelle." In the New Testament Acts 9:36, Tabitha is a disciple in the city of Joppa, known for her good works, who is raised from the dead by the apostle Peter — her Greek name is Dorcas, also meaning "gazelle."

Tabitha was popularised in the 1960s by the TV series Bewitched — where Samantha and Darrin's daughter was named Tabitha. top 700, but is rising again.

Gazelle — a Aramaic name.

The name in its native script.

טביתא
Transliteration
Ṭbītā
Pronunciation
/ ˈtæb.ɪ.θə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tabitha stands.

Tabitha does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Tabithas before her.

Real people
Tabitha Brown
American actress and influencer.
born 1979
In fiction
Tabitha Stephens
Daughter of Samantha and Darrin in Bewitched.
ABC, 1964–1972

Names connected to Tabitha.

The number behind Tabitha.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tabitha reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.