Deborah

girls:

742.2k births since 1880

#32 (99th percentile)

boys:

1.7k births since 1939

#3034 (34th percentile)

overall:

743.8k births since 1880

#77 (99th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Deborah is the #77 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 743,833 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 99.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #32 (99.5% percentile) for all time with 742,174 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,034 (33.8% percentile) for all time with 1,659 births since 1939.

Deborah has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1939 for boys).

The name Deborah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.

For girls, Deborah reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 99.9% percentile (ranked #2) with 26,094 births per million. The name was most common in 1954, with 27,464 births per million (ranked 99.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Deborah ranks #692 for girls (27.0% percentile) with 151 births per million, which is 0.5% of its peak share of births.

For boys, Deborah reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 14.7% percentile (ranked #545) with 48 births per million. The name was most common in 1955, with 48 births per million (ranked 14.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Deborah".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
742,174
Peak Births
54,676
Peak Year
1955
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
99.9%
Current Percentile
27.0%
Peak Rank
#2
Current Rank
#692
Female statistics
Total Births
1,659
Peak Births
100
Peak Year
1955
First Recorded
1939
Peak Percentile
14.7%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#545
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Deborah

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Deborah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 75.9% confident that Deborah is pronounced as DEH-ber-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEH-bruh, at 24.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like D EH1 B ER0 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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