Debora

Where Debora comes from

The dictionaries list Debora as a given name — a female given name from Hebrew, a less common spelling of Deborah — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Hebrew
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,795 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1957
    Peak, #161
    2,371 babies named Debora — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1962
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #265.
  4. 1964
    Debora Patta born
    South African broadcast journalist and editor
  5. 1968
    Debora Caprioglio born
    Italian actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, a less common spelling of Deborah.
Namesakes
  • Debora Caprioglio · Italian actress, born 1968
  • Debora Patta · South African broadcast journalist and editor, born 1964
  • Debora Serracchiani · Italian politician, born 1970
  • Debora Vogel · Polish poet and painter, 1900–1942
  • Debora Vaarandi · Estonian writer, 1916–2007

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.