Deborah

Where Deborah comes from

From Hebrew דְּבוֹרָה (dvorá), meaning bee.
— Wiktionary's entry for Deborah
  • Hebrew
  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #492 among girls — 12 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1921
    Deborah Kerr born
    British actress
  3. 1955
    Peak, #2
    52,318 babies named Deborah — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1960
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #10.
  5. 1985
    Deborah Ann Woll born
    American actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, popular from the 1940s to the 1970s, first in the USA, then in the UK.
Namesakes
  • Deborah Kerr · British actress, 1921–2007
  • Deborah Ann Woll · American actress, born 1985
  • Deborah Kara Unger · Canadian actress, born 1966
  • Deborah Compagnoni · Italian alpine skier, born 1970
  • Deborah Lipstadt · American diplomat and Holocaust historian, born 1947

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.