Talitha

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Thoughts on Talitha, not a huge fan of Tabitha but really like Talitha, nn Tallie

Talith are a lost race of people in The Ill-Made Mute trilogy by Celia Dart-Thornton.

Always thought it would make a nice name with an a on the end.

I know a Talitha I love the name.
As pp said the one I know pronounces it 'Tal-EE- tha'

Love it. Much more lyrical and sophisticated than Tabitha.

Exactly what TatianaLarina said ^^ It's amazing how changing just one letter makes all the difference.

I've never heard it before. I really like it. Reading it I would pronounce it Tal-eat-a.
Obviously if I was introduced to a Talitha with another pronunciation that's the one I would use.

We have a Talitha in our family.

Pronounced TahLEEtha.

I think it's great I've been known as Tallie. Definitely TAL-itha.

Talitha was not actually the name of the girl. Jesus said, ‘Talitha cumi’ which in Aramaic means, ‘Little girl, Arise.’ The given name does originally reference that story though. It also has celestial connections.

I think it's awful, sorry. As a pp said, like you are mispronoucing tabitha, or Talisa (as in that girl who used to be on tv) and tho this will undoubtedly not apply, "tallie" was a derogatory term used for Italian immigrants until relatively recently where I live. How about Calista, with "Callie" for short?

I love it! I know one too, very rare name, gorgeous meaning, my sister is called Talitha, we call her “T” for short.

No

I'm familiar with an arts/charity group called Talitha who support young women globally- girls who have survived and thrived following hardship and oppression.

The one I now is pronounced Tall-uh-ther

Know not now

No. If you don’t know the biblical connection it sounds like a made up name or badly pronounced Tabitha (which is a lovely classic name)

I know a Talita - I think her parents liked talitha but then preferred the t to th sound at the end...

I think that’s how it’s pronounced in some languages.

I love it

Pronounced Ta-LEE-tha

Talia is nice, Tabitha is fine but Talitha is just terrible, sorry op! Sounds like you have a speech impediment and can’t pronounce Tabitha.

I really love Talitha (but can never remember which syllabus should be emphasised!) I also love Tabitha. I find Talitha an underused biblical classic.

No, too lispy

It's fine. Tal-EE-tha

I like Talitha (Ta-LEE-tha/Tal-EE-tha) very much. My cousin is considering it. Definitely prefer it to Tabitha, which I don't like tbh, sorry to anyone I may offend. I don't consider those names connected or similar. Unless I've been pronouncing Tabitha wrong and it's actually "Tabeetha".

I don't understand people saying Talitha sounds like speech impediment (rude) or like you can't pronounce Tabitha. Maybe those writing that aren't familiar with the name Talitha and aren't pronouncing Talitha properly, or how I know it to be pronounced anyway. Which may be an issue OP, but I wouldn't let it stand in your way if you really like it.

Tabitha and Talitha don't sound very similar to me. They aren't pronounced in the same way. Talitha is Ta-LEE-tha or Tal-EEE-tha. Tabitha isn't pronounced Ta-BEE-tha or Tab-EEE-tha is it.

Hard to explain pronunciations/differences but unlike Talitha, in Tabitha there is not strong emphasis/prolonged sound of "i" sound, it's a short "i" sound. Tabitha doesn't have a emphasised BEE sound in the middle does it, more like bi of biscuit, and emphasis more on the TA. Like Tabby-tha Tabbi-tha, Tab-ith-a , idk how to write it, probably TA-bith-a, TAB-ith-a, TA-bitha, TAA-bith-a. ?? Haha. Whereas Talitha is emphasis LEE or EE like the ee from bee, in the middle not "li" like lick, and not "lith" like Lithuania. NOT ta-lith-a. It's Ta-LEE-tha /Tal-EE-tha. So yeh the two names don't sound alike the way I know how to pronounce them anyway. They don't have the same sound of the "i" or the same emphasis, if that's the right way to explain it.

Ta-LEE-tha, Tal-EE-tha VS Ta-bith-a, TA-bitha, TAB-ith-a, TA-bith-a, TAB-itha, TAA-bith-a.

Haha! Point is, we couldn't be mispronouncing Tabitha when we say Talitha, people writing that must be mispronouncing Talitha . Unfamiliar people reading it may mispronounce it as if it's like Tabitha, they'd be wrong, but it's ok I have a name people have to learn to pronounce.

(Btw I know some have different versions of Talitha, like Ta-LEE-ta too. Wiki page for Talitha says "In Brazil, Talita (or Talitha/Thalita) was the 100th most common name for newborn girls in 2009.")

In conclusion, I like Ta-LEE-tha/Tal-EE-tha a lot, and it's not like Tabitha. Sorry if I put you off with this long winded explanation. You/your child might have to explain pronunciation to the unfamiliar. Hopefully you'll do better than me. Of course anyone can decide to pronounce a name differently. Someone here did say TAL-itha or TAHL-itha, which does sound nice.