Debera
Feminine · “Bee”
Debera is what the name looks like when somebody writes it down from hearing it. The standard spelling carries a silent h from Hebrew transliteration and a vowel in the middle that English does not pronounce; take both out and you get three syllables of plain English that say exactly the same thing.
How old is the name Debera?
Debera first appears in US birth records in 1944 — 81 years ago. The typical Debera alive today was born around 1956, making them about 69 years old. About 1,000 people named Debera are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Debera most popular?
Debera peaked in 1952, reaching #997 nationally. See the whole 1952 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Devorah to Debera
The story of Debera
The story around her is one of the oldest and least tidy in the Hebrew Bible. She judges Israel from under a palm tree, summons a commander called Barak and tells him to take ten thousand men against a general with nine hundred iron chariots; he refuses to go without her, and she tells him that because of that the honor of the day will go to a woman and not to him. It does, and not to her. The enemy general escapes the battle on foot, takes shelter in the tent of a woman called Jael who offers him milk and a blanket, and while he sleeps she drives a tent peg through his temple with a mallet. The chapter that follows is a victory song, and it is among the oldest surviving Hebrew poetry.
Meaning
Bee
The Hebrew word is the ordinary one for a bee, and the name is one of a set that use animals directly. The root also connects to words about speaking and about leading, which some readers have taken as a second layer of meaning given who the bearer was, though the primary sense is not in doubt.
How the name formed
- Devorah
- Deborah
- Debera
Related forms: Devorah · Debora · Debora · Debora
Pronouncing Debera
DEB-uh-ruh
Three syllables with the stress at the front and both later vowels reduced to nothing, which is exactly why they can be written with any letters at all. The h at the end of the standard spelling is silent and marks a Hebrew letter rather than a sound.
Nicknames for Debera
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
- 1944
- Most girls named
- 195596 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #997reached in 1952
- Change vs 1978
- 0.0%5 in 1980, from 5
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.
Debera in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Devorah in Hebrew — transliteration
- Debora in Italian — same name
- Debora in Spanish — same name
- Debora in French — same name
Deberas among us
people named Debera 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
Debera 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
- The spelling matches ordinary English pronunciation more closely than the standard one does.
- Debbie and Deb are two established short forms in different registers.
- The name is recognizable across Italian, Spanish and French with almost no change.
- Deborah and Debra are both far commoner and will be written by anybody taking dictation.
- The name is strongly dated to the middle of the last century in American use.
- Debbie takes over completely for most bearers, and it belongs to a specific generation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Deberas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Debera are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Debera in 2025?
- Debera is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Debera will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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