Entry № 10283 · Aramaic origin

Talitha Talitha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TAL-ih-thah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Aramaic
Meaning
"Little girl"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (New Testament)

A name that means "little girl".

Talitha is from the Aramaic ṭalitha (טליתא), meaning "little girl" or "young maiden." In the Gospel of Mark 5:41, Jesus raises a 12-year-old girl from death with the words "Talitha cumi" — "Little girl, arise."

The name remains rare but distinctive.

Little girl — a Aramaic name.

The name in its native script.

טליתא
Transliteration
Ṭlithā
Pronunciation
/ ˈtæl.ɪ.θə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Talitha stands.

Talitha does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Talithas before her.

Real people
Talitha Getty
Anglo-Dutch model and style icon.
1940 – 1971
In fiction
Talitha
The 12-year-old girl raised from death in Mark 5.
New Testament

Names connected to Talitha.

The number behind Talitha.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Talitha reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.