How rare is the name Debrah?

4,741 people in the United States have the first name Debrah, about 1 in 63,706. It ranks #4,082 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

DEBRAH

#4,082

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,741
About
1 in 63,706
This common or more
83.5%
Who bears it

Of the 4,741 people named Debrah, 76% reported their origin as White, 14.2% as Black and 5.2% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Debrah peaked in 1954, when 312 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19342021
Peak year
1954
Births that year
312
In 2021
5 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 4,404 babies have been given the name since 1934. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Debrah by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1950s, when it ranked #1,057. The largest share of babies named Debrah, 74.6%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1930s#9,55415
1940s#3,062240
1950s#1,0572,373
1960s#1,7031,122
1970s#3,983312
1980s#7,384160
1990s#12,044112
2000s#22,08858
2010s#43,4487
2020s#39,3255
Silent Generation 1928–451.3%
Baby boom 1946–6474.6%
Generation X 1965–8016.6%
Millennials 1981–965.2%
Generation Z 1997–122.2%
2013 and later0.1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Debrah is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Debrah has been most common in West Virginia (2.4×), Michigan (1.9×), and Ohio (1.8×), and least common in Virginia (0.54×).

2,587 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Debrah, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Debrah ranks #69,166 of 156,621, with 306 people. See Debrah as a last name

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