Tabita
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- TAH-bee-ta
- Origin
- Aramaic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
Tabita is a girls' name of Aramaic origin, meaning “gazelle”. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies).
What does Tabita mean?
Aramaic: Italian, Spanish and Romanian form of Tabitha
“gazelle”
In the Acts of the Apostles, Saint Peter raises Tabitha, also called Dorcas, from the dead at Joppa.
Is Tabita a girl's or a boy's name?
Tabita is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Tabita in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,776among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 27% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Tabita, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 11 girls.
Half of all the girls named Tabita in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.
Tabita in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,776 |
| 2024 | 10 | #2,644 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 11 | #2,420 |
| 2018 | 10 | #2,631 |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 10 | #2,692 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 7 | #3,321 |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #4,141 |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
Names like Tabita
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aisha Khadija Amira Tanisha Ayana Hana Dakota Tanvika Amara Syeda Maya Trishika
Names related to Tabita
More Aramaic names
Thomas Tommy Martha Barnaby Barney Tomas Tadeo Tom Thaddeus Tomos Marta Tommie Tomi Saphira Tommaso Barnabas
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Tabita: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tabita, updated 20 October 2026.