Given name & surname
Tabita
“a graceful woman”
Tabita is used as a given name and a surname. One African interpretation is “a graceful woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One African interpretation is “a graceful woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is African.
How it developed
From Aramaic טביתא (Ṭabītā’, “doe, roe, gazelle”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1962. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tabita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 246
- 0 boys · 246 girls
- Most popular year
- 1977
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 1977. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 543 as a first name in 2020; 113 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tabita’s family of names
In German usage, Tabita has a conventional equivalent in the English form Tabitha. In Portuguese usage, Tabita has a related form in Tabitha. In Portuguese usage, Tabita has a related form in Tabbytha.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Tabita has relatives in 4 languages.
5 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Tabithavariant · Portuguese, English
- Tabbythavariant · Portuguese
- Tabittalikely variant
- Tabbitalikely variant
- Tabeitavariant
- Tabietavariant
- Tabeatavariant
- Tabeetavariant
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Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Tabita
- Tabita BerglundNorwegian conductorborn 1989
- Tabita JosephHaitian association football playerborn 2003
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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