Tabitha, or Dorcas, the Greek equivalent of the name, is a woman mentioned in the New Testament.

The English name is derived from an Aramaic word, טביתא/ܛܒܝܬܐ ṭaḇīṯā "[female] gazelle",[1] cf.

It is a biblical name from Acts of the Apostles (Acts 9:36), which in the original Greek was Ταβιθά, in which Tabitha, a benevolent woman, dies, then gets resurrected by Peter the Apostle.

The character Tabitha Stephens, a child witch on the 1960s television situation comedy Bewitched, raised the profile of the name.

[2] It was ranked among the 1,000 most popular names for girls born in the United States until 2016 and has since declined in usage.