Given name
Debbora
“bee”
Debbora is a given name from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Latin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Debbora goes back to Biblical Hebrew דבורה, meaning “bee.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1947. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Debbora through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 231
- 0 boys · 231 girls
- Most popular year
- 1955
- 19 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1968. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 19 in 1955. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 198 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Debbora’s family of names
Debbora may belong to the same name family as Debora. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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