Debborah
Feminine · “Bee”
Debborah is Deborah with a doubled b, a mid-century spelling of the Hebrew 'bee'. Its everyday form Debbie belonged to an actress who learned to dance on the job and to a little girl in a straw hat on a snack-cake box.
How old is the name Debborah?
Debborah first appears in US birth records in 1948 — 77 years ago. The typical Debborah alive today was born around 1957, making them about 68 years old. About 500 people named Debborah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Debborah most popular?
Debborah peaked in 1952, reaching #1256 nationally. See the whole 1952 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Devorah to Debborah
The story of Debborah
Debbie Reynolds, a nineteen-year-old with almost no dance training, was cast opposite Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor in Singin' in the Rain and rehearsed until her feet bled; she later said childbirth and the film were the two hardest things she ever did. In 1960 the McKee Baking Company of Tennessee put a drawing of the founders' four-year-old granddaughter, Debbie, in a straw hat on its new line of snack cakes, and Little Debbie became one of the best-known faces in American groceries. Debborah, with its doubled b, was a spelling of the mid-century.
Meaning
Bee
From Hebrew Devorah, 'bee'.
How the name formed
- Devorah
- Deborah
- Debborah
Related forms: Devorah · Deborah · Debora
Pronouncing Debborah
DEB-er-uh
Three syllables with the stress on the first, like Deborah.
Nicknames for Debborah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1948
- Most girls named
- 195257 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1256reached in 1952
- Change vs 1972
- −37.5%5 in 1989, from 8
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Debborah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Devorah in Hebrew — related form
- Deborah in English — spelling variant
- Debora in Italian — same name
Debborahs among us
people named Debborah are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Debborah sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Sounds exactly like Deborah, a name everyone knows.
- A settled meaning.
- Comes with Debbie and Deb as ready short forms.
- Almost everyone will write Deborah.
- It reads as a mid-century name.
- Some will read the doubled b as a slip.
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- How many Debborahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Debborah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Debborah in 2025?
- Debborah is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Debborah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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