Devorah
Devorah was given to 163 girls in 2025, #1,354 among girls’ names; 4,789 Americans have been recorded with it since 1941 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,640 Americans named Devorah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 9 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Devorah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Devorah?
#1,354 among girls’ names, 2025
Devorah rose from #2,096 in 2015 to #1,354 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.05 to 0.10 per 1,000.
163 babies in 2025, the peak
Devorah peaked in 2025, when 163 girls were given it, #1,354 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 159 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 163 | #1,354 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 159 | #1,407 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 139 | #1,535 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 108 | #1,874 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 140 | #1,507 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 141 | #1,512 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 131 | #1,616 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 142 | #1,534 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 108 | #1,879 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 105 | #1,914 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 93 | #2,096 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 109 | #1,856 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 126 | #1,677 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 108 | #1,862 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 104 | #1,915 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 95 | #2,080 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 93 | #2,155 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 102 | #2,035 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 104 | #1,974 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 109 | #1,869 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 76 | #2,347 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 79 | #2,230 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 86 | #2,065 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 93 | #1,901 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 102 | #1,752 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 71 | #2,214 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 66 | #2,258 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 84 | #1,831 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 72 | #1,985 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 74 | #1,932 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 58 | #2,283 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 71 | #1,976 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 60 | #2,192 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 60 | #2,221 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 59 | #2,215 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 66 | #2,029 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 47 | #2,446 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,839 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 58 | #1,948 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,843 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,142 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,481 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 54 | #1,916 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 52 | #1,996 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 56 | #1,919 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,398 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 47 | #2,119 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,202 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,677 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 46 | #1,940 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,069 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,632 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,143 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,306 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,545 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 27 | #2,659 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,933 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,201 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,111 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,533 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,594 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,843 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,495 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,465 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,489 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,248 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,296 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,125 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,745 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,648 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,860 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,610 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,757 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,602 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,330 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,141 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,542 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,189 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,096 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,122 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,705 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,067 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Devorah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Devorah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 82 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Devorah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Devorah, and how old are they?
4,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 4,789 Americans ever recorded as Devorah. The median Devorah alive today is 20 years old; half are between 9 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 3,651 people named Devorah (3,638 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,870 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 225 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 423 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 905 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,430 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,650 |
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 Devorah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 88 | #188 | 8.3× |
| New Jersey | 43 | #197 | 5.6× |
Where Devorah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Devorah is most over-represented in New York: since 1941 it was given 8.3 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 Devorah 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 9,130 babies since 1880, Devorah is the most given (52% of them). In 2025 it was given to 163 of their 270 babies (60%), again the most given.
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 Devorah
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 Devorah and names like it
- Compare Devorah and DevoraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sDevorah peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Devorah since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Devorah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Devorah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with DMost given first.