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Thoughts on Tabitha please

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Eleta · 03/05/2008 12:30

Now this is my all time fave girls name but dh was against it last two pregnancies so ended up with a Charlotte and a Molly. He thinks Tabitha is a cats name.

He is starting to come round as he knows how much I love it (I think he could be bribed! )

He really wants Lucy though. I would just like some thoughts from other people. Don't worry if you hate it, thats fine, I love it so much I don't care but am just interested in other peoples reactions

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halogen · 13/05/2008 21:49

My daughter is a Tabitha and I'm a Lucy. I obviously love the name Tabitha but would say that I really like my name too, as it's one of those names that's never really in or out of fashion and I don't think it has dated in the way that trendier names have done. My Tabitha is 20 months old and calls herself Tata. I don't care about the cat connotations at all. So people think it's a cat's name? OK. Cats are beautiful, slinky, cool, collected, wise-seeming creatures to me. It's better than being called a warthog's name or a beetle's name IYSWIM.

LookattheLottie · 12/05/2008 02:49

Love Tabitha, very pretty name. Although I've never met anybody with the name.

squanderedzeitgeist · 12/05/2008 02:30

Love it and in the early 90s swore I would call any future daughter this. By the time I had her I had changed my mind. I love that it means gazelle in Aramaic...beautiful sultry soft-sounding name

talkingmongoose · 11/05/2008 12:13

I wanted this name, but it was vetoed. It is having a popularity explosion though, i'm hearing it being shouted all over the place lately.

DorisH · 08/05/2008 19:52

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RainyWednesday · 07/05/2008 20:13

Ha ha ha - I need to purge, sorry. I HATE it. My cousin called her daughter this and two and a bit years on I still wince every time I hear it. Ugh ugh.

DANCESwithLordPottingtonSmythe · 06/05/2008 18:10

OOOOOOOOOoh I love this! Dh would NOT be persuaded either. Just as well we had a boy really

dinny · 06/05/2008 18:08

Katsh, my ds calls his sister Taba too! sooo cute

friends call her Tabby and we call her Minnow or Mins! don't ask

squilly · 06/05/2008 12:07

We thought of Lucy, but couldn't live with the looselastic jokes that would (possibly) come.

I personally love Tabitha, but I was a Bewitched fan (sorry if you're too young to remember this one).

I'm not much of a judge of names though. I wanted to call my daughter Elora Dannon after the ickle baby in Willow.

That lasted right up til she was born when I came to my post-em cs senses and went for 2 much more practical names. Caitlin Megan.

PersephoneSnape · 06/05/2008 12:02

tabitha is classy and quirky at the same time - mine is 12 and also has the dark hair feline eyes thing going on. she's lovely it's a lovely name, not even slightly 'grubby' it's hebrew for 'gazelle'.

southeastastra · 06/05/2008 11:55

my neice has this as a second name too, are you my sister katsh?

Katsh · 06/05/2008 11:54

My middle dd is Tabitha, and we and she love it. She shortenend it to "Taba" when she was little, and that has stuck within the family. She is only called "Tabby" by one cousin and she adores him and likes it when he calls her that. A few people gave us the Cat comment when she was named, but very quickly the name becomes identified with the person and no-one thinks of any other connection. Go for it!

Alishanty · 06/05/2008 11:39

My cat is called Tabitha. It is a lovely name though.

Cecy · 05/05/2008 23:53

I have a four yr old Tabitha, so obviously I love it. One of her middle names is Lucy(my husband wanted it for a first name too).
People do try to call her Tabby or even Tabs, but she usually corrects them herself .

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WantThisWantThat · 05/05/2008 19:44

My family's girl's name is Tabitha. I have four generation of relatives with the name. My daughter's middle is Tabitha, though I would have loved for her it to be her first.

Rather weirdly some of the older aunts in the family are called Bitha/Bytha, which does sound a bit strange.

WantThisWantThat · 05/05/2008 19:43

My family's girl's name is Tabitha. I have four generation of relatives with the name. My daughter's middle is Tabitha, though I would have loved for her it to be her first.

Rather weirdly some of the older aunts in the family are called Bitha/Bytha, which does sound a bit strange.

cheesesarnie · 05/05/2008 19:36

i love tabitha.dd has a friend called tabitha.but i also like lucy and im totally bias about molly as thats my dds name.(ds2 calls her doll though!)

ohnelly · 05/05/2008 19:33

Tabitha is a cat. Lucy is really nice

Izzywhizzy · 05/05/2008 08:28

Sorry. I think it's a cat's name too. I like Lucy tho'.

kitsmummy · 05/05/2008 08:10

Am 100% in favour of Tabitha and even quite like Tab for short. Lucy is "sweet" but neither interesting nor exciting (sorry to any Lucy parents out there .

CocodeBear · 05/05/2008 08:01

I love Tabitha. Do people think it's a cat's name because you can shorten it to Tabby?

It's lovely. And there are plenty of so-called cat names around that are still nice: Felix, Cleo, Kitty!

duchesse · 05/05/2008 06:24

I know dogs called Jasper, Sam, Megan, Emma and Oscar. Just because people give their pets people's names don't make them "dogs'names". Ditto Felix (lovely name), Tabitha, etc. Incidentally, is "Jeremy" a frog's name?

EllenJane · 04/05/2008 22:48

Tabitha is my favourite girls' name!

PictureThis · 04/05/2008 21:46

Sorry, cats name