Meaning not yet researched.
Debora: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 78 in 2025. Its best rank was #161 in 1957.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #161 in 1957; #2,336 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Debora in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,336 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1957, at #161.
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Debora: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 78 girls in 2025. Peak: #161 in 1957 · most girls in one year: 2,371 (1957).
In 2025, 78 US girls were named Debora, making it the 2,336th most common girls’ name of the year, down 214 places from #2,122 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 90 girls named Debora in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #161, reached in 1957. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,371. For comparison, it was #2,344 in 2015 and #437 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Debora in 100 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 6 babies. In all, 30,161 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 14,930 babies named Debora.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 875 US girls were named Debora; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 106. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,606 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Debora ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,512 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Deborah (744,478 babies since 1880), Debbie (188,287 babies since 1880), Debera (1,252 babies since 1880) and Deborrah (942 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Debbera are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Deb, Debbie and Debby.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Italian and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Debbera (78).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,512 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #1,956 | #1,522 |
| California | 9 | #2,139 | #1,954 |
| New York | 5 | #2,173 | — |
| Texas | 9 | #2,263 | #1,643 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | #2,336 | — | — |
| 2024 | 90 | #2,122 | — | — |
| 2023 | 106 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 2022 | 98 | #1,996 | — | — |
| 2021 | 74 | #2,422 | — | — |
| 2020 | 79 | #2,262 | — | — |
| 2019 | 84 | #2,205 | — | — |
| 2018 | 76 | #2,391 | — | — |
| 2017 | 97 | #2,023 | — | — |
| 2016 | 93 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 2015 | 79 | #2,344 | — | — |
| 2014 | 87 | #2,182 | — | — |
| 2013 | 87 | #2,158 | — | — |
| 2012 | 100 | #1,957 | — | — |
| 2011 | 69 | #2,597 | — | — |
| 2010 | 91 | #2,154 | — | — |
| 2009 | 79 | #2,431 | — | — |
| 2008 | 86 | #2,276 | — | — |
| 2007 | 72 | #2,575 | — | — |
| 2006 | 57 | #2,992 | — | — |
| 2005 | 73 | #2,415 | — | — |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,454 | — | — |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,587 | — | — |
| 2002 | 71 | #2,291 | — | — |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,712 | — | — |
| 2000 | 63 | #2,436 | — | — |
| 1999 | 69 | #2,185 | — | — |
| 1998 | 59 | #2,377 | — | — |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,048 | — | — |
| 1996 | 72 | #1,967 | — | — |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,465 | — | — |
| 1994 | 60 | #2,216 | — | — |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,840 | — | — |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,162 | — | — |
| 1991 | 62 | #2,139 | — | — |
| 1990 | 66 | #2,033 | — | — |
| 1989 | 68 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 1988 | 47 | #2,339 | — | — |
| 1987 | 57 | #1,963 | — | — |
| 1986 | 52 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 1985 | 58 | #1,911 | — | — |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,841 | — | — |
| 1983 | 44 | #2,207 | — | — |
| 1982 | 69 | #1,657 | — | — |
| 1981 | 66 | #1,716 | — | — |
| 1980 | 68 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 1979 | 67 | #1,665 | — | — |
| 1978 | 80 | #1,438 | — | — |
| 1977 | 93 | #1,277 | — | — |
| 1976 | 106 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1975 | 117 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 1974 | 150 | #868 | — | — |
| 1973 | 207 | #709 | — | — |
| 1972 | 207 | #700 | — | — |
| 1971 | 300 | #583 | — | — |
| 1970 | 394 | #502 | — | — |
| 1969 | 522 | #423 | — | — |
| 1968 | 582 | #379 | — | — |
| 1967 | 677 | #340 | — | — |
| 1966 | 821 | #309 | — | — |
| 1965 | 879 | #303 | 7 | #3,311 |
| 1964 | 961 | #298 | — | — |
| 1963 | 1,118 | #267 | — | — |
| 1962 | 1,134 | #265 | 5 | #4,184 |
| 1961 | 1,385 | #233 | — | — |
| 1960 | 1,553 | #215 | 5 | #4,163 |
| 1959 | 1,963 | #184 | 5 | #4,123 |
| 1958 | 2,248 | #167 | 6 | #3,628 |
| 1957 | 2,371 | #161 | — | — |
| 1956 | 2,330 | #161 | — | — |
| 1955 | 2,063 | #166 | — | — |
| 1954 | 1,237 | #229 | — | — |
| 1953 | 920 | #270 | — | — |
| 1952 | 805 | #287 | — | — |
| 1951 | 639 | #311 | — | — |
| 1950 | 343 | #437 | — | — |
| 1949 | 185 | #604 | — | — |
| 1948 | 118 | #791 | — | — |
| 1947 | 73 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1946 | 32 | #1,561 | — | — |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,669 | — | — |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,008 | — | — |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,507 | — | — |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,116 | — | — |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,325 | — | — |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,446 | — | — |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,982 | — | — |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,522 | — | — |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,776 | — | — |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,906 | — | — |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,844 | — | — |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,468 | — | — |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,705 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,412 | — | — |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,458 | — | — |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,440 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,999 | — | — |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,329 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,882 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).