Deborah Girl
How popular is Deborah?
#862 girl name in 2025
313 baby girls were named Deborah in the US in 2025, making it the 862nd most popular girl name.
Deborah popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #862 for girls (▼ 10 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 313 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-11% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #804 in 2015, #904 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1954 (54,674 girls) |
| Highest rank | #2 in 1955 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Deborah counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Deborah family of names ranked #685 for girls in 2025 (#670 the year before), with 391 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Deborah | 313 | 80% |
| Debora | 78 | 20% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Deborah is most popular
Babies named Deborah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Massachusetts: 0.5 per 1,000 (60 girls)
- Indiana: 0.5 per 1,000 (66 girls)
- Maryland: 0.4 per 1,000 (41 girls)
- Florida: 0.4 per 1,000 (157 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.4 per 1,000 (66 girls)
Deborah by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 143 | #447 |
| 1890s | 183 | #538 |
| 1900s | 226 | #699 |
| 1910s | 651 | #644 |
| 1920s | 1,070 | #534 |
| 1930s | 2,808 | #293 |
| 1940s | 44,054 | #15 |
| 1950s | 430,537 | #2 |
| 1960s | 183,439 | #9 |
| 1970s | 47,855 | #33 |
| 1980s | 14,783 | #146 |
| 1990s | 7,574 | #262 |
| 2000s | 4,284 | #493 |
| 2010s | 3,429 | #752 |
| 2020s | 1,784 | #852 |
Girl names about as popular as Deborah
Questions
- Is Deborah a boy or girl name?
- Deborah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Deborah were girls.
- How popular is the name Deborah?
- 313 baby girls were named Deborah in the US in 2025, making it the 862nd most popular girl name.
- When was Deborah most popular?
- Deborah peaked in 1954, when 54,674 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #2 in 1955.
- How many people are named Deborah?
- 744,478 babies have been named Deborah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 617,681 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 69.
- Where is Deborah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Deborah was most common in Massachusetts, at 0.5 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.