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Tabita

Girls' name

Doe, roe, gazelle

Tabita has been given to 246 babies in the U.S. since 1962. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1977, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Tabita, 2018

1 in 703,000

Tabita over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tabita: meaning, origin, and history

Doe, roe, gazelle

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tabita means

Tabita means “doe, roe, gazelle”, associated with Ṭabītā’.

Origin, language, and formation

Tabita is used in Faroese and Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Tabitha.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Tabita is pronounced /taˈbi.tɐ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 246 girls were recorded with the name Tabita between 1962 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1977; its best national rank was #4,902 in 1977.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tabita?

Tabita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 340,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tabita sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tabita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tabitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tabita was born before 1988 — so the typical Tabita is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
30.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
246
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (74).

Is Tabita rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (14)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,902
1977

Spellings of Tabita

Tabita is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 43.3% against Tabita's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tabita is used

Across 1910–2025, Tabita was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,601,278 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tabita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tabita around the world

Where Tabita ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2019
    #871
    in 2019
  • France
    1998–2024
    #5,981
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1989–1989
    #692
    in 1989

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Tabita by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,902
1977
Peak year
1977
14 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
246
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tabita

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Tabita

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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