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Debra vs Debroah

American parents have registered 551,841 Debras since 1880, against 1,432 Debroahs. Debra is still ahead, with 31 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Debra against Debroah, 1880 to 2025 0 15k 30k 45k 60k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Debra Debroah

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

Debra has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1914 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1989, when Debra had 555 and Debroah had 8.

Side by side

  Debra Debroah
Total US births 551,8411,432
Most in one year 50,638117
Babies in 2025 31under 5
Estimated living today 460,0001,200
Median age today 6765
Peak year 19551955
Best rank 4th girls906th girls
Rank in 2025 4,460thunranked
First recorded 19141948
Girls / boys 550,695 / 1,1461,432 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Debras alive today are over 67; half the Debroahs are over 65. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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