Tabita
Barbara Tabita is an Italian actress, comedian, and playwright.
- Biblical Latin
Meaning & Origin of Tabita
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Barbara Tabita is an Italian actress, comedian, and playwright.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Biblical Latin
The Story of Tabita
Tabita first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1962, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1977: 14 births, good for #4,652 nationwide. About 30% of every Tabita on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Tabita last appeared in the published SSA data in 2018, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 246 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
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About the name Tabita
Tabita is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1962 and has accumulated 246 births in the dataset. Tabita's peak popularity came in 1977 when it ranked #4,652. Use the chart and map above to compare Tabita's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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