Meaning not yet researched.
Debra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #2 in 1956.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2 in 1956; #4,478 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Debra in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,478 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1956, at #2.
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Debra: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 girls in 2025. Peak: #2 in 1956 · most girls in one year: 50,563 (1955).
In 2025, 31 US girls were named Debra, making it the 4,478th most common girls’ name of the year, down 885 places from #3,593 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 43 girls named Debra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2, reached in 1956. The most girls given the name in a single year was 50,563, in 1955. For comparison, it was #3,932 in 2015 and #59 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Debra in 111 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 551,841 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 341,939 babies named Debra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 433 US girls were named Debra; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 51,847 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Deborah (744,478 babies since 1880), Debbie (188,287 babies since 1880), Debrah (4,404 babies since 1880) and Debbra (3,652 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Debbrah, Debraha and Deobrah are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Deb and Debbie.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Debbrah (114), Debraha (11), Deobrah (10), Debraa (6), Debrra (5), Debraoh (5).
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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,478 | — | — |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,593 | — | — |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,587 | — | — |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,842 | — | — |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,504 | — | — |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,459 | — | — |
| 2019 | 54 | #3,014 | — | — |
| 2018 | 50 | #3,218 | — | — |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,448 | — | — |
| 2016 | 53 | #3,113 | — | — |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,932 | — | — |
| 2014 | 54 | #3,087 | — | — |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,330 | — | — |
| 2012 | 68 | #2,639 | — | — |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,736 | — | — |
| 2010 | 73 | #2,519 | — | — |
| 2009 | 81 | #2,381 | — | — |
| 2008 | 88 | #2,234 | — | — |
| 2007 | 120 | #1,787 | — | — |
| 2006 | 118 | #1,763 | — | — |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,860 | — | — |
| 2004 | 132 | #1,520 | — | — |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,565 | — | — |
| 2002 | 140 | #1,379 | — | — |
| 2001 | 143 | #1,343 | — | — |
| 2000 | 164 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 1999 | 187 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 1998 | 205 | #986 | — | — |
| 1997 | 213 | #932 | — | — |
| 1996 | 226 | #875 | — | — |
| 1995 | 257 | #776 | — | — |
| 1994 | 308 | #683 | — | — |
| 1993 | 356 | #631 | — | — |
| 1992 | 353 | #639 | — | — |
| 1991 | 478 | #496 | — | — |
| 1990 | 542 | #454 | — | — |
| 1989 | 555 | #438 | — | — |
| 1988 | 618 | #388 | — | — |
| 1987 | 641 | #366 | — | — |
| 1986 | 775 | #309 | — | — |
| 1985 | 918 | #273 | — | — |
| 1984 | 1,020 | #245 | 5 | #6,537 |
| 1983 | 1,084 | #229 | 9 | #4,216 |
| 1982 | 1,313 | #209 | 9 | #4,311 |
| 1981 | 1,341 | #202 | 8 | #4,620 |
| 1980 | 1,558 | #177 | — | — |
| 1979 | 1,688 | #166 | 5 | #6,267 |
| 1978 | 1,870 | #147 | — | — |
| 1977 | 1,961 | #146 | 7 | #4,703 |
| 1976 | 2,069 | #134 | 6 | #5,072 |
| 1975 | 2,444 | #114 | 9 | #3,716 |
| 1974 | 3,129 | #94 | 6 | #4,754 |
| 1973 | 3,652 | #84 | 17 | #2,333 |
| 1972 | 4,666 | #66 | 16 | #2,347 |
| 1971 | 5,928 | #57 | 20 | #2,070 |
| 1970 | 7,198 | #47 | 22 | #1,902 |
| 1969 | 7,951 | #43 | 35 | #1,359 |
| 1968 | 9,095 | #38 | 32 | #1,369 |
| 1967 | 10,217 | #38 | 20 | #1,768 |
| 1966 | 11,261 | #35 | 32 | #1,351 |
| 1965 | 13,098 | #27 | 36 | #1,280 |
| 1964 | 15,329 | #24 | 48 | #1,100 |
| 1963 | 17,335 | #21 | 35 | #1,324 |
| 1962 | 20,593 | #15 | 45 | #1,154 |
| 1961 | 22,160 | #13 | 52 | #1,085 |
| 1960 | 26,732 | #8 | 75 | #877 |
| 1959 | 31,388 | #7 | 67 | #942 |
| 1958 | 35,521 | #6 | 81 | #839 |
| 1957 | 42,728 | #4 | 72 | #891 |
| 1956 | 48,324 | #2 | 90 | #783 |
| 1955 | 50,563 | #4 | 75 | #848 |
| 1954 | 45,896 | #6 | 87 | #764 |
| 1953 | 36,856 | #7 | 52 | #1,002 |
| 1952 | 26,832 | #9 | 35 | #1,248 |
| 1951 | 17,064 | #18 | 24 | #1,529 |
| 1950 | 6,176 | #59 | 8 | #2,821 |
| 1949 | 2,392 | #134 | 6 | #3,395 |
| 1948 | 1,125 | #218 | — | — |
| 1947 | 679 | #303 | — | — |
| 1946 | 417 | #369 | — | — |
| 1945 | 205 | #511 | — | — |
| 1944 | 219 | #485 | — | — |
| 1943 | 102 | #769 | — | — |
| 1942 | 107 | #720 | — | — |
| 1941 | 98 | #708 | — | — |
| 1940 | 85 | #752 | — | — |
| 1939 | 74 | #798 | — | — |
| 1938 | 60 | #915 | — | — |
| 1937 | 79 | #770 | — | — |
| 1936 | 56 | #913 | — | — |
| 1935 | 52 | #960 | — | — |
| 1934 | 51 | #968 | — | — |
| 1933 | 37 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1932 | 26 | #1,493 | — | — |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,039 | — | — |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,038 | — | — |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,026 | — | — |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,649 | — | — |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,738 | — | — |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,736 | — | — |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,987 | — | — |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,734 | — | — |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,176 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,187 | — | — |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,058 | — | — |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,376 | — | — |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,303 | — | — |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,802 | — | — |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,583 | — | — |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,950 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,747 | — | — |
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).