Debora
The girl's name Debora has been in the national records since 1915, with 30,161 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 2,326th. About 26,000 Deboras are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Debora boys named Debora
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 30,161
- Estimated living today
- 26,000
- Median age today
- 65
- Peak year
- 1957
- Best rank
- 161st
- Rank in 2025
- 2,326th
- First recorded
- 1915
- Girls / boys
- 30,133 / 28
How old the living Deboras are
born that year still alive today
Of the 30,161 babies given the name since 1915, about 26,000 are alive — 85 in every hundred. Roughly 1,500 of them are children and 14,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Deboras
- Débora Falabella (born 1979)Brazilian actress
- Debora Caprioglio (born 1968)Italian actress
- Debora Patta (born 1964)South African broadcast journalist and editor
- Débora Bloch (born 1963)Brazilian actress
- Debora Serracchiani (born 1970)Italian politician
- Debora Vogel (1900–1942)Polish poet and painter
- Débora Arango (1907–2005)Colombian artist
- Débora Nascimento (born 1985)Brazilian actress, voice actress and model
People named Debora with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Debora is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Debora is most concentrated in Maine (2.3×), South Dakota (1.6×), Hawaii (1.4×), Ohio (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1957
The most popular girls’ names the year Debora peaked:
Debora elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Debora | 4,028 | — |
| France girls | Debora +1 spelling | 1,855 | 531st |
| Switzerland girls | Debora | 521 | 100th |
| Belgium girls | Debora +1 spelling | 196 | 462nd |
| England and Wales girls | Debora | 191 | 1,562nd |
| Poland girls | Debora | 170 birth registrations | 238th |
| Ireland girls | Debora | 27 | 665th |
| Scotland girls | Debora | 19 | 481st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Debora: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Debora | 404 | 0.032% | 88th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Debora | 90 | 0.021% | 133rd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Debora | 25 | 0.038% | 56th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Debora | 2 | 0.054% | 10th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Debora is most concentrated in Lucerne, where 0.04% of children were given it – 33 of them.
Debora: rank by region
In 2015, Debora was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brussels | Debora | 253 | 6 |
In 2025, Debora was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pomorskie | Debora | 209 | 2 |
| Śląskie | Debora | 255 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Debora by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 538th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Debora among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Debora | 3,088 | 5,366 |
| Finland girls | Debora | 29 | 69 |
| the Netherlands boys | Debora | — | 15 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Debora lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 6,068 women called Debora were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pontevedra | Debora | 213 | 0.434 | 287 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Debora | 227 | 0.410 | 297 |
| Palmas, Las | Debora | 237 | 0.402 | 306 |
| Guadalajara | Debora | 55 | 0.391 | 281 |
| Segovia | Debora | 28 | 0.355 | 313 |
| Cádiz | Debora | 226 | 0.353 | 293 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Debora against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.