Debrah
Debrah was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 4,404 Americans have been recorded with it between 1934 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,620 Americans named Debrah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 61 and 72.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Debrah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Debrah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,831, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
312 babies in 1954, the peak
Debrah peaked in 1954, when 312 girls were given it, #499 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #15,831 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,846 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,221 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,332 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,700 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,140 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,772 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,910 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,690 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,948 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 8 | #10,344 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,387 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,217 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,056 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,723 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,537 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,727 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,894 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,708 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,519 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,899 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,911 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,904 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,621 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,150 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,470 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,036 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,006 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,082 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,412 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,937 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,303 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,756 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,773 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,363 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 39 | #2,029 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 54 | #1,692 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 55 | #1,684 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 63 | #1,482 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 70 | #1,327 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 79 | #1,196 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 92 | #1,097 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 102 | #1,036 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 116 | #991 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 130 | #925 | 0.07 |
| 1962 | 150 | #864 | 0.08 |
| 1961 | 143 | #903 | 0.07 |
| 1960 | 177 | #766 | 0.09 |
| 1959 | 210 | #691 | 0.10 |
| 1958 | 199 | #699 | 0.10 |
| 1957 | 233 | #644 | 0.11 |
| 1956 | 270 | #571 | 0.13 |
| 1955 | 292 | #536 | 0.15 |
| 1954 | 312 | #499 | 0.16 |
| 1953 | 296 | #504 | 0.16 |
| 1952 | 217 | #590 | 0.12 |
| 1951 | 190 | #625 | 0.11 |
| 1950 | 154 | #693 | 0.09 |
| 1949 | 66 | #1,110 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 55 | #1,225 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 45 | #1,380 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 32 | #1,561 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,191 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,427 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,029 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,009 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,767 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,420 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Debrah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Debrah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Debrah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Debrah, and how old are they?
3,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 4,404 Americans ever recorded as Debrah. The median Debrah alive today is 68 years old; half are between 61 and 72.
The 2020 Census counted 4,741 people named Debrah (4,735 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,851 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 26 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,600 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 667 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 224 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 94 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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 Debrah born?
The states with the most babies named Debrah are California, Texas and Ohio, with 30% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 294 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 256 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 223 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 207 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 186 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 168 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 133 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 94 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 84 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 83 | not ranked | 0.9× |
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 Debrah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Debrah?
Debrah is a less common spelling of Debra: SSA has recorded 4,404 Debrah and 551,841 Debra since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,338,162 babies since 1880, Debrah is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 422 babies recorded by SSA was a Debrah (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 Debrah
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 Debrah and names like it
- Compare Debrah and DebraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDebrah peaked in 1954.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Debrah since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Debrah.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Debrah alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.