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Girl's name · #864 in the US (2025) · Vintage
Deborah is an heirloom: its strongest era came around 1955, when it ranked #2. It has thinned since but never left the records — about 743,000 girls since 1880, ranked #864 today. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 24 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#429 in Norway (2025) · #569 in Scotland (2025) · #579 in Austria (2025) · #581 in England & Wales (2025) · #637 in Ireland (2025) · #679 in Switzerland (2025) · #782 in Sweden (2025) · #907 in Netherlands (2025) · #1,135 in France (2025) · #1,335 in Belgium (2025) · #728 in Canada (2024).
Among 1,445 notable people named Deborah:
Scientists & scholars appear 1.42× more often than among typical names — e.g. Deborah Lipstadt, American diplomat and Holocaust historian (born 1947).
Together with its spelling variant Debora (#2336), Deborah would rank around #718 with about 390 births last year — the newborns split about 80/20 between Deborah and Debora.
Earlier generations knew Deb — the standard of the 1950s.
Similar names: Debora · Sharon · Denise · Ann · Susan · Judith
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