Tabita
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Arameo: ‘gacela’; corresponde al hebreo Sebia y al griego Dorcas
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tabita/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tabita is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 6.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 83K
- RORomania≈1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Arameo: ‘gacela’; corresponde al hebreo Sebia y al griego Dorcas
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tabita counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Tabita | 18 |
| CL Chile | #671 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | 14 | Tabita | 42 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,546 | 1 in 83K | 2.5K | Tabita | 75 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Tabita | 14 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Tabita | 14 |
| DK Denmark | — | 199 | 1 in 29K | 199 | — | 1 |
| MD Moldova | — | 102 | 1 in 33K | 102 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | — | 85 | 1 in 22K | 86 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tabita is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Gacela
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Finnish, Tabitha (biblical character)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tabita Landováb. 1978CZCzech protestant parson and theologian
- Tábita Hünemeierb. 1979BRBrazilian geneticist, researcher and university teacher
- Tabita Hartmann-Hansenb. 1983Danish cyclist
- Tabita Berglundb. 1989NONorwegian conductor
- Tabita Rezaireb. 1989FRcontemporary artist (born 1989)
- Tabita Mafteib. 2000RORomanian rower
- Tabita Josephb. 2003HTHaitian association football player
- Tabita Gaitánb. 2006GTGuatemalan squash player
- Detour CityGBnot in their usual nameBritish singer and songwriter
- Tabita N. Randrianarivonybotanist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 67 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.5K | #4,371 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.2K | #5,601 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 224 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 199 | #1,001 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 102 | #941 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 86 | #1,260 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 85 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 14 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2009 | 1 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Tabita?
- In the etymology graph, Tabitha, Tabatha and Tabea are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Tabita?
- A machine transcription gives /tabita/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Tabita a male or female name?
- Tabita is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Tabita mean?
- Recorded meaning: Arameo: ‘gacela’; corresponde al hebreo Sebia y al griego Dorcas
- In which country does Tabita have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 thousand people named Tabita in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tabita.
- How common is the name Tabita?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,546 people named Tabita in 2022, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.
- How common is Tabita compared with other names?
- In Chile, Tabita is the 671st most common given name of 70,478 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tabita?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tabitaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tabita” — the 671st most common given name in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.