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Deborah

Pronounced /ˈdɛb(ə)ɹə/

Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1955 · #730
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for girls:316 in 2024 (#852)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • No boys were recorded as Deborah in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
  • It peaked in 1955 with 100 babies, ranked #730.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1939.
  • 1,658 boys 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.

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0
    Gen Z
  7. 0
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 17 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,149 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 428 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 64 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 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.