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Deboraha vs Debrah

American parents have registered 4,404 Debrahs since 1880, against 362 Deborahas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Deboraha against Debrah, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Deboraha Debrah

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Debrah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1934 to 2021. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1949, when Deboraha had 9 and Debrah had 66.

Side by side

  Deboraha Debrah
Total US births 3624,404
Most in one year 34312
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 3003,700
Median age today 6867
Peak year 19551954
Best rank 1,803rd girls500th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19491934
Girls / boys 362 / 04,404 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Deboraha and Debrah.