Girl

Devorah

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#1,354
163 girls
2015
#2,096
rank
1950
#2,142
rank

Devorah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 163 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,354 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Devorah in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#1,354 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
163
Since 1880
4,789
Years on record
82

Babies named Devorah, every year since 1880

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Girls

Devorah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 163 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,354 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 163 (2025).

About the name Devorah

In 2025, 163 US girls were named Devorah, making it the 1,354th most common girls’ name of the year, up 53 places from #1,407 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 159 girls named Devorah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,354, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 163. For comparison, it was #2,096 in 2015 and #2,142 in 1950.

Social Security card records list Devorah in 82 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1941 with 6 babies. In all, 4,789 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,121 babies named Devorah.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,336 US girls were named Devorah; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 163. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,861 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Devorah ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #188 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) and Devora (2,893 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Devera and Devara are summarised on this page.

Meaning

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.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Devera (449), Devara (7).

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Devorah in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Devorah by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
New York88#188#388
New Jersey43#197#368

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025163#1,354——
2024159#1,407——
2023139#1,535——
2022108#1,874——
2021140#1,507——
2020141#1,512——
2019131#1,616——
2018142#1,534——
2017108#1,879——
2016105#1,914——
201593#2,096——
2014109#1,856——
2013126#1,677——
2012108#1,862——
2011104#1,915——
201095#2,080——
200993#2,155——
2008102#2,035——
2007104#1,974——
2006109#1,869——
200576#2,350——
200479#2,233——
200386#2,067——
200293#1,903——
2001102#1,755——
200071#2,218——
199966#2,261——
199884#1,834——
199772#1,988——
199674#1,934——
199558#2,288——
199471#1,981——
199360#2,197——
199260#2,226——
199159#2,221——
199066#2,034——
198947#2,451——
198867#1,843——
198758#1,949——
198661#1,844——
198549#2,143——
198438#2,482——
198354#1,917——
198252#1,996——
198156#1,919——
198040#2,398——
197947#2,119——
197842#2,202——
197731#2,677——
197646#1,940——
197542#2,069——
197428#2,632——
197321#3,144——
197219#3,306——
197118#3,546——
197027#2,659——
196921#2,934——
196817#3,202——
196717#3,112——
196623#2,534——
196513#3,595——
196420#2,844——
196314#3,496——
196214#3,466——
196114#3,490——
196015#3,249——
195914#3,297——
195815#3,126——
195718#2,746——
195619#2,649——
195516#2,861——
195418#2,611——
195310#3,758——
195217#2,603——
195119#2,331——
195021#2,142——
194916#2,543——
194811#3,190——
194712#3,098——
19465#5,124——
19455#4,707——
19416#4,069——

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).