Deborah
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Deborah
Deborah has suffered from the fact that in the mid-twentieth century there were so many Debbies on the block that the beauty and meaning of the original name got lost. Deborah may no longer be among the most popular girl names starting with D, but now this lovely name of an Old Testament prophetess suddenly sounds fresher than overused Sarah, Rachel, and Rebecca.
The biblical Deborah was a poet, judge, and heroic prophet who first predicted that the Israelites would win their freedom from the tyrannical Canaanites, then led a successful revolt that helped accomplish it, celebrating the victory in a famous song of triumph.
Deborah was the second most popular name in the US in 1955, remaining in the Top 10 from 1950 to 1962. The streamlined version, Debra, was hot on its tail, replacing it at Number 2 a year later.
Some notable bearers have been Revolutionary War heroine Deborah Sampson Gannett, actress Deborah Kerr, modern operatic soprano Deborah Voigt, Deborah (Blondie) Harry, and Debbie (born Mary Frances) Reynolds.
The original form Devorah is another possibility.
Deborah is also given to boys.
Pronounced DEB-uh-ruh.
As of October 2026, Deborah ranked #864 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #2 in 1955, Nameberry popularity #879.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #752 | 373 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #804 | 350 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #821 | 349 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #772 | 357 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #781 | 349 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #900 | 296 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #905 | 290 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #910 | 295 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #910 | 301 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #968 | 267 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #852 | 316 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #864 | 313 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Deborah for girls
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Deborah on lists
Famous Deborahs
- Deborah Jane KerrGirl
Scottish actress
- Deborah Ann "Debbie" HarryGirl
American singer
- Deborah Ann "Debbie" GibsonGirl
American singer
- Deborah Anne "Debby" BooneGirl
American singer
- Deborah Ann "Debby" RyanGirl
American actress
- Deborah CoxGirl
American R&B singer
- Deborah PryceGirl
former U.S. Congresswoman from Ohio
- Deborah MailmanGirl
Australian actress
- Deborah Ann WollGirl
American actress
- Deborah L. "Deb" MellGirl
American politician
- Deborah Ann ConwayGirl
Australian singer, formerly of band Do,Re,Mi
- Deborah Lynn Thurmond AllenGirl
American country music singer
- Deborah Kara UngerGirl
Canadian actress
- Deborah VoigtGirl
American operatic soprano
- Deborah Vivien (Mitford) CavendishGirl
Duchess of Devonshire
- Deborah Esther LipstadtGirl
American historian and author
- Deborah LyttonGirl
American novelist
- Deborah ReadGirl
common,law wife of Benjamin Franklin
- Deborah "Deb" ChubbGirl
Contestant and third-place finisher on season 4 of Love Island USA
Deborah in pop culture
- Deborah GaleGirl
schoolmistress who sacrifices her personal life for her pupils in Ernest Poole's Pulitzer Prize,winning novel His Family (1917)
- Deborah KrilletGirl
'the Shulamite' from Alice and Claude Askew's novels The Shulamite (1904) and The Woman Deborah (1910)
- Deborah "Debbie" ScottGirl
character on One Tree Hill
- Deborah TrevertonGirl
character from Green city in the sun, by Barbara Wood
- Harriet Deborah VaneGirl
character in Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey books
- Deborah JenkynsGirl
character in Cranford
- Deborah "Debbie" ThornberryGirl
character in the cartoon The Wild Thornberrys
- Deborah "Debbie" OceanGirl
character on "Ocean's" series
- Deborah "Debbie" GallagherGirl
youngest daughter on Showtime TV series Shameless