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Christian names starting with T

Browse Christian and biblical names starting with T, with meanings, origins, and faith context.

The T cluster is predominantly New Testament. Thomas (Aramaic Toma, "twin") was one of the twelve apostles, called Didymus in Greek (also "twin"), best known for his doubt and subsequent confession of the risen Jesus as "my Lord and my God" in John 20:24 to 29.

Timothy (Greek Timotheos, "honoring God"), the young pastor of mixed Greek and Jewish parentage whom Paul called his son in the faith. Two of Paul's letters bear Timothy's name as their addressee, and the broader Acts narrative shows him traveling with Paul through Asia Minor and Greece. Titus (Latin Titus) was another of Paul's missionary companions, sent to Crete to organize the church there and the addressee of the third of the Pastoral Epistles.

Tabitha (Aramaic Tabitha, "gazelle"; called Dorcas in Greek with the same meaning) was the Joppa disciple raised from the dead by Peter in Acts 9:36 to 42. She is described as "full of good works and almsdeeds," and her name appears in the catalog as one of the lesser-known New Testament women whose substantive role gave the name a long Christian-tradition afterlife.

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T names in 2026

Thomas has held a US Top 100 boys' position every year since 1880, among the longest unbroken Top 100 runs for any New Testament name in the SSA dataset's 145-year history. Thomas currently sits at #34 in the 2025 SSA data, near the upper end of its century-plus range.

Timothy followed a different arc: Top 20 from 1957 through 1990, then a steady decline to #203 in the most recent release, mirroring the broader recession of mid-20th-century apostolic names alongside Peter and Paul. Titus sits in the Top 400 at #358 with a distinctive small-community following, and Tabitha sits outside the SSA Top 1000 in 2025.