Debborah
Debborah was last recorded in 1989, when 5 babies were given it; 617 Americans have been recorded with it between 1948 and 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Debborah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Debborah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,871, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
57 babies in 1952, the peak
Debborah peaked in 1952, when 57 girls were given it, #1,259 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 5 | #12,871 | 2.7 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,067 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,621 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,817 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,006 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,046 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,234 | 9.7 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,434 | 8.3 |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,553 | 13.0 |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,693 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 18 | #2,984 | 9.3 |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,553 | 11.7 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,863 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,449 | 11.9 |
| 1959 | 34 | #1,924 | 16.8 |
| 1958 | 28 | #2,125 | 13.9 |
| 1957 | 42 | #1,656 | 20.5 |
| 1956 | 32 | #1,903 | 15.9 |
| 1955 | 40 | #1,618 | 20.5 |
| 1954 | 56 | #1,334 | 28.8 |
| 1953 | 45 | #1,460 | 23.9 |
| 1952 | 57 | #1,259 | 30.7 |
| 1951 | 37 | #1,559 | 20.5 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,686 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,963 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,406 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Debborah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Debborah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Debborah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Debborah, and how old are they?
An estimated 502 Americans named Debborah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 63 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 491 people named Debborah (490 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 537 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Debborah?
Debborah is a less common spelling of Deborah: SSA has recorded 617 Debborah and 744,478 Deborah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 786,080 babies since 1880, Debborah is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 391 babies recorded by SSA was a Debborah (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Debborah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Debborah and names like it
- Compare Debborah and DeborahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDebborah peaked in 1952.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Debborah since 1910.
- The top names of 1952The year the most babies were named Debborah.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Debborah alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.