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Debrah vs Debroah

American parents have registered 4,404 Debrahs since 1880, against 1,432 Debroahs. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Debrah against Debroah, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Debrah Debroah

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Debrah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1934 to 2021. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1982, when Debrah had 10 and Debroah had 10.

Side by side

  Debrah Debroah
Total US births 4,4041,432
Most in one year 312117
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 3,7001,200
Median age today 6765
Peak year 19541955
Best rank 500th girls906th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19341948
Girls / boys 4,404 / 01,432 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Debrahs alive today are over 67; half the Debroahs are over 65. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Debrah and Debroah.