Deborrah
Feminine · “A bee”
Deborrah is one of the mid-century American spellings of a name that has been carried for three thousand years. The extra letter is recent; everything else about it is very old, and it belongs to one of the most striking women in the Hebrew Bible.
How old is the name Deborrah?
Deborrah first appears in US birth records in 1948 — 77 years ago. The typical Deborrah alive today was born around 1954, making them about 71 years old. About 800 people named Deborrah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Deborrah most popular?
Deborrah peaked in 1953, reaching #948 nationally. See the whole 1953 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Devorah to Deborrah
The story of Deborrah
The Deborah of the Book of Judges holds an office the text gives to no other woman, and she holds it in her own right, sitting under a palm tree while people come to her for judgment. That is the ancient half. The American half has its own figure worth knowing: Deborah Sampson enlisted in the Continental Army under a man's name, served more than a year, was wounded, and afterward petitioned for and received a soldier's pension — one of very few women of the era to be paid as a veteran by the government she had fought for. She later toured New England lecturing about it, in uniform.
Meaning
A bee
The Hebrew word is devorah, a bee, and that reading is not disputed. What is worth adding is that the same three consonants spell the Hebrew root for speech — the root behind the word for word itself. Scholars differ on whether the bee is named from the speaking or the resemblance is a coincidence of a language with a small alphabet, but for a woman the biblical text presents as a prophet and a judge, the overlap has never stopped being noticed.
How the name formed
- Devorah
- Deborah
- Deborrah
Related forms: Devorah · Débora · Debora · Débora
Pronouncing Deborrah
DEB-uh-ruh
Three syllables with the stress at the front. The doubled r adds no sound; Deborah, Debora and Deborrah are identical in speech.
Nicknames for Deborrah
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
- 195399 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #948reached in 1953
- Change vs 1970
- −50.0%5 in 1971, from 10
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.
Deborrah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Devorah in Hebrew — same name
- Débora in Spanish — same name
- Debora in Italian — same name
- Débora in French — same name
Deborrahs among us
people named Deborrah 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
Deborrah 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 meaning is settled, concrete and pleasant, which parents value more than they expect to.
- It is understood immediately in English, Spanish, Italian and Hebrew without translation.
- The woman behind it is one of the few in the ancient record who holds authority without borrowing it from a husband.
- The doubled r is invisible in speech, so she will correct the spelling for life without ever being misheard.
- The name is strongly associated with one stretch of American fashion, and it may read as a mother's name for a while yet.
- Debbie comes attached whether or not anyone asks for it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Deborrahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Deborrah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Deborrah in 2025?
- Deborrah is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Deborrah with classmates?
- Deborrah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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