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Deborah
Pronounced /ˈdɛb(ə)ɹə/
Rank in 2024
#852
Born in 2024
316
Peak year
1954 · #3
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 316 girls were named Deborah, about 1 in every 5,105.
- It peaked in 1954 with 54,675 babies, ranked #3.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 742,504 girls have been named Deborah since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Deborah per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- 0.4Silent1928–45
- 16.2Boomers1946–64
- 4.7Gen X1965–80
- 0.7Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 1,630 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Silent: 8,392 babies, 0.41 per 1,000. Boomers: 581,917 babies, 16.25 per 1,000. Gen X: 120,612 babies, 4.72 per 1,000. Millennials: 18,704 babies, 0.66 per 1,000. Gen Z: 7,024 babies, 0.24 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,873 babies, 0.19 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Hebrew דְּבוֹרָה (dvorá), meaning bee.
- A female given name from Hebrew, popular from the 1940s to the 1970s, first in the USA, then in the UK.
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- /ˈdɛb(ə)ɹə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Deborah, CC BY-SA 4.0.