Debora
Feminine · “bee”
Debora is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 30,133 girls against 28 boys since 1880.
Debora is the Italian and Spanish spelling of Deborah, and the Hebrew behind it is a bee — an image later commentary made much of, since the Deborah of Judges sits under a palm dispensing judgment.
How old is the name Debora?
Debora first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Debora alive today was born around 1960, making them about 65 years old. About 26,500 people named Debora are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Debora most popular?
Debora peaked in 1956, reaching #161 nationally. Today it ranks #2326, 2,165 places below that high. See the whole 1956 chart.
Where it comes from
From devorah to Debora
The story of Debora
Deborah reached English through the Bible and was a Puritan favorite. Italian, Spanish and Portuguese all use the single-h Debora, which is the standard continental form. American families used it alongside Deborah and Debra, and Debora appears in the registers in real numbers, peaking in the early 1960s at the height of the whole family's popularity.
Meaning
bee
From the Hebrew devorah, 'bee'. The Deborah of the Book of Judges is both prophet and judge, one of the very few figures in the Hebrew Bible given that pair of roles, and the bee has been read as an image of ordered, industrious rule.
How the name formed
- devorah
- Deborah
- Debora
Related forms: Debora · Débora · Deborah · Devorah
Pronouncing Debora
DEB-uh-ruh
Three syllables, stress on the first. Italian and Spanish say DEH-bo-ra with a fuller final vowel.
Nicknames for Debora
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
- 1915
- Most girls named
- 19562,330 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #161reached in 1956
- Change vs 2023
- −26.4%78 in 2025, from 106
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.
Debora in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Debora in Italian — same name
- Débora in Spanish — same name
- Deborah in English — spelling variant
- Devorah in Hebrew — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Deboras among us
people named Debora are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 20,606 born in 2025 was named Debora
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Debora
- #2326
- Debora on the 2025 chart
- #598
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Debora went to 78 girls in 2025, but Deborah is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 391, which makes it the 598th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,728 places above the chart.
- Deborah313
- Debora78
About 1 girl in 4,111 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 20,606 for Debora itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Elva test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Debora's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Elva climbed just as high around 1901, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Elva's path sketches the road Debora is walking now.
Debora sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Debora is headed
Debora should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Debora beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Debora in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented biblical figure with genuine authority in her own story stands behind it.
- It is the standard spelling in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
- Deb and Debbie are both available with their own long records.
- Deborah with the h is much commoner in English and will be assumed.
- It is closely dated to the middle of the twentieth century in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Deboras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 26,500 people named Debora are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Debora?
- Debora is one of 2 recorded spellings. Deborah is the more common one — 313 births in 2025 against 78 for Debora.
- How popular is the name Debora in 2025?
- Debora ranks #2326 among US girl names in 2025, with 78 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Debora?
- About 1 in every 20,606 US girls born in 2025 was named Debora — 78 in all.
- Will my child share the name Debora with classmates?
- Debora will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Debora
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