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How popular is the name Deborah?

Births per year, rank history and how many Deborahs are alive today.

Deborah (female), once a common girls' name, is now an uncommon choice for new babies in England and Wales, ranked 580th in 2025 with 68 given the name. The name peaked in 1964, when around 12,300 babies were given the name, the 5th most popular that year. It has declined since 1964; the 2025 figure is roughly 1% of its peak. Numbers have been rising in recent years. At least 140,000 babies have been named Deborah in England and Wales since 1954. Figures before 1996 are estimates. Common short forms of Deborah include Debbie.

The Deborah you are most likely to meet is around 62 years old. Half of all Deborahs born in England and Wales are between 57 and 65, and there are at least 140,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 36% chance that at least one of them will be called Deborah.

How many babies are named Deborah each year?

Where does Deborah rank among girls' names?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.