Débora
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: Deborah (prophetess mentioned in the Book of Judges) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: datos.gob.ar, 2015
/ˈdɛ.bo.ɾa/(recorded in a dictionary) Portuguese · from Wiktionary
Débora is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Débora is also written Дебора in Cyrillic, ደቦራ in Ethiopic and დებორა in Georgian.
- BRBrazil1 in 657(measured from records)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 790
- ARArgentina≈1 in 1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Débora itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 403 (measured from records)
- 1 in 657 (inferred from the name graph)
622,217 named Deborah, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Débora in other scripts: Cyrillic, Ethiopic and Georgian
(measured from records)Locally spelled Debora in US United States, BR Brazil, AR Argentina and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Débora
- Portuguese:/ˈdɛ.bo.ɾa/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/ˈdeboɾa/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Deborah (prophetess mentioned in the Book of Judges)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Débora is read
(measured from records)Débora is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese73%
Deborah (prophetess mentioned in the Book of Judges)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish20%
hebreo Devorah: «abeja»
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Débora counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #942 | 622,217as Deborah | 1 in 535 | 622K | Debora | 403 |
| BR Brazil | #142 | 322,208 | 1 in 657 | 322K | Debora | 202 |
| TZ Tanzania | #300 | ≈87,000 est. | ≈1 in 786 | — | Debora | 20 |
| IT Italy | #366 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 26 | Debora | 146 |
| ID Indonesia | #760 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | listed | Debora | 124 |
| AR Argentina | #290 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 97 | Debora | 113 |
622,217 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling deborah. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Débora is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
La que es trabajadora como una abeja
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In French, Deborah (a judge of Israel)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Débora Falabellab. 1979BRBrazilian actress
- Débora Lyrab. 1989BRBrazilian model
- Debinhab. 1991BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Débora mean, and where does it come from?
- Deborah (prophetess mentioned in the Book of Judges) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Débora?
- In the etymology graph, Deborah, Debra and Debbie are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Débora?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ˈdɛ.bo.ɾa/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /ˈdeboɾa/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people named Débora?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 622 thousand people named Deborah, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Brazil, Tanzania, Italy and Indonesia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Débora most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Débora is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 657 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- Is Débora a male or female name?
- Débora is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Débora?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 322,208 people named Débora in 2022, about 1 in 657 residents.
- How common is Débora compared with other names?
- In the United States, Débora is the 942nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Débora?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%A9boraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Débora” — ranked 66th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.