Debora
Debora was given to 78 girls in 2025, #2,336 among girls’ names; 30,161 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 25,500 Americans named Debora and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 59 and 70.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Debora by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Debora mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Debora is “a female given name from Hebrew, a less common spelling of Deborah.”
/ˈdɛbəɹə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Debora?
#2,336 among girls’ names, 2025
Debora rose from #2,344 in 2015 to #2,336 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 44.3 to 48.5 per million.
2,371 babies in 1957, the peak
Debora peaked in 1957, when 2,371 girls were given it, #161 among girls’ names. The 78 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | #2,336 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 90 | #2,122 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 106 | #1,881 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 98 | #1,996 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 74 | #2,422 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 79 | #2,262 | 0.05 |
| 2019 | 84 | #2,205 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 76 | #2,391 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 97 | #2,023 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,098 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 79 | #2,344 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 87 | #2,182 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 87 | #2,158 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,957 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 69 | #2,596 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 91 | #2,154 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 79 | #2,430 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 86 | #2,276 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 72 | #2,575 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 57 | #2,991 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 73 | #2,411 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,451 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,584 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 71 | #2,288 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,708 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 63 | #2,432 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 69 | #2,182 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 59 | #2,374 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,045 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 72 | #1,965 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,460 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 60 | #2,211 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,835 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,157 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 62 | #2,133 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 66 | #2,028 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 68 | #1,909 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 47 | #2,334 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 57 | #1,962 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 52 | #2,057 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 58 | #1,910 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,841 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 44 | #2,206 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 69 | #1,657 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 66 | #1,716 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 68 | #1,679 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 67 | #1,665 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 80 | #1,438 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 93 | #1,277 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 106 | #1,126 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 117 | #1,028 | 0.08 |
| 1974 | 150 | #868 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 207 | #709 | 0.14 |
| 1972 | 207 | #700 | 0.14 |
| 1971 | 300 | #583 | 0.18 |
| 1970 | 394 | #502 | 0.23 |
| 1969 | 522 | #423 | 0.31 |
| 1968 | 582 | #379 | 0.35 |
| 1967 | 677 | #340 | 0.41 |
| 1966 | 821 | #309 | 0.49 |
| 1965 | 879 | #303 | 0.50 |
| 1964 | 961 | #298 | 0.51 |
| 1963 | 1,118 | #267 | 0.58 |
| 1962 | 1,134 | #265 | 0.58 |
| 1961 | 1,385 | #233 | 0.69 |
| 1960 | 1,553 | #215 | 0.77 |
| 1959 | 1,963 | #184 | 1.0 |
| 1958 | 2,248 | #167 | 1.1 |
| 1957 | 2,371 | #161 | 1.2 |
| 1956 | 2,330 | #161 | 1.2 |
| 1955 | 2,063 | #166 | 1.1 |
| 1954 | 1,237 | #229 | 0.64 |
| 1953 | 920 | #270 | 0.49 |
| 1952 | 805 | #287 | 0.43 |
| 1951 | 639 | #311 | 0.35 |
| 1950 | 343 | #436 | 0.20 |
| 1949 | 185 | #603 | 0.11 |
| 1948 | 118 | #790 | 0.07 |
| 1947 | 73 | #1,038 | 0.04 |
| 1946 | 32 | #1,560 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,668 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,711 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,007 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,505 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,115 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,324 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,445 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,980 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,520 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,774 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,904 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,842 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,466 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,703 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,410 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,456 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,438 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,997 | under 0.01 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,327 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,880 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Debora a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Debora has been given almost only to girls: 28 boys in 100 years of records.
Girls and boys named Debora: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Debora, and how old are they?
25,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 30,161 Americans ever recorded as Debora. The median Debora alive today is 66 years old; half are between 59 and 70.
The 2020 Census counted 30,023 people named Debora (29,996 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 26,349 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Debora rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 69 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 17,500 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,800 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 909 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,120 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Debora born?
The states with the most babies named Debora are California, New York and Texas, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 3,108 | #2,139 | 1.1× |
| New York | 2,323 | #2,173 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 1,869 | #2,263 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 1,773 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,572 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 1,316 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 1,242 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 925 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 911 | #1,956 | 1.1× |
| Indiana | 665 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Debora is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Debora is most over-represented in Maine: since 1915 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Debora with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,337,808 babies since 1880, Debora is the third most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 78 of their 422 babies (18%), the second most given that year.
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 Debora
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 Debora and names like it
- Compare Debora and DeborahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDebora peaked in 1957.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Debora since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Debora.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Debora alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.