Debroah
Feminine · “bee”
Debroah has two letters swapped, and it reached the register in numbers large enough to chart. That is worth noticing on its own: a name has to be extraordinarily common before its misspellings appear often enough to be recorded as names in their own right, and this one was. The word underneath means a bee, and shares a root with the Hebrew for speaking.
How old is the name Debroah?
Debroah first appears in US birth records in 1948 — 77 years ago. The typical Debroah alive today was born around 1959, making them about 66 years old. About 1,200 people named Debroah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Debroah most popular?
Debroah peaked in 1955, reaching #906 nationally. See the whole 1955 chart.
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Where it comes from
From The Hebrew word for a bee, used as a name to Debroah
The story of Debroah
Transposed spellings only become names when the base name is everywhere. For most of the record a misspelling is a one-off: a clerk's error on a single certificate, corrected or forgotten. But when a name is carried by a very large share of the girls born in a decade, the errors accumulate, and if enough families keep the version on the certificate rather than fixing it, the misspelling starts appearing as a name in its own right. That is what happened here. It is a slightly melancholy sort of evidence, because what it measures is not anybody's choice but the sheer volume of paperwork a fashionable name generates, and the number of families who looked at a certificate, saw something slightly wrong, and decided it was not worth the trouble.
Meaning
bee
The Hebrew word means a bee and the reading is not in dispute. What is less widely known is that the root it belongs to also produces the word for a word or a thing spoken, which has led commentators for centuries to connect the bee with speech, and to note that the woman who carries the name in the Bible is both a judge who gives verdicts and a poet. Whether the connection is anything more than a coincidence of root is disputed.
How the name formed
- The Hebrew word for a bee, used as a name
- Extremely common in mid-century America
- Transposed spellings appearing in the paperwork
- Debroah recorded often enough to chart as a name
Related forms: Devorah · Debora
Pronouncing Debroah
DEB-uh-ruh
Three syllables, stress on the first, said exactly as the standard spelling. The transposed letters sit in the syllable nobody stresses, which is precisely why the error could survive being written and read without anybody correcting it.
Nicknames for Debroah
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
- 1955117 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #906reached in 1955
- Change vs 1989
- −37.5%5 in 1990, 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.
Debroah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Devorah in Hebrew — related form
- Debora in Italian — related form
Debroahs among us
people named Debroah 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
Debroah 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 sound is universally known and never needs explaining.
- Deb and Debbie are two very different registers from one certificate.
- It carries a genuinely strong biblical figure with a short story to tell.
- The letters are in the wrong order and everybody who notices will assume an error.
- Software, forms and teachers will all correct it to Deborah.
- It is closely tied to one American generation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Debroahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Debroah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Debroah in 2025?
- Debroah is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Debroah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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