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Debrah

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Debrah has been given to 4,404 babies in the U.S. since 1934. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1954, with 312 recorded.

Babies named Debrah, 2021

1 in 678,000

Debrah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Debrah: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Debrah means

Debrah is a given name.

The naming story behind Debrah

Wikidata records Debrah as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q19968499, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,404 girls were recorded with the name Debrah between 1934 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 312 in 1954; its best national rank was #499 in 1954.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Debrah?

Debrah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Debrah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Debrah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Debrahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Debrah was born before 1957 — so the typical Debrah is around 68 today.

Median birth year
1957
About 68 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
53.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,149
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 53.9% of all recorded uses (2,373).

Is Debrah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1954 (312)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#499
1954

Spellings of Debrah

Debrah is not the most common spelling — Deborah is, with 54.7% against Debrah's 0.32%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Debrah is used

Across 1910–2025, Debrah was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 56,625 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 25,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 33,333
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 33,333
  4. 4Michigan1 in 33,333
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 33,333
  6. 6Ohio1 in 33,333
  7. 7California1 in 50,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Debrah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Debrah around the world

Where Debrah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2007
    #5,201
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1955–1973
    #695
    in 1973

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Debrah

People whose public names include Debrah, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Debrah in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Debrah. Linked forms have their own page here.

DebraDebbieDeborah

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Debrah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#499
1954
Peak year
1954
312 that year
First recorded
1934
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
4,404
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Debrah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Debrah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Debrah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

GeralynJacalynVickeyLuDebiLuanneRandyKathiJannCindaLuannDebby

Sibling names for Debrah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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