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.
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.
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.