Debra
Debra is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 43 births. Its best rank was 2nd, in 1956.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 430.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 195550,560 births
- Best rank
- #2in 1956
- Since 1914
- 551,809people given the name
The story in the numbers
550,662 girls have been named Debra in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1955, with 50,560 births — 2.6% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 43 births in 2024, against 50,560 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1957, and the 1950s alone account for 62%. It has spent 65 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 25 of them in the top 100 and 9 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,147 boys have also been given it, 0.21% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Debra | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 41 | |
| 1920s | 94 | |
| 1930s | 468 | |
| 1940s | 5,429 | |
| 1950s | 341,347 | |
| 1960s | 153,771 | |
| 1970s | 34,604 | |
| 1980s | 9,824 | |
| 1990s | 3,125 | |
| 2000s | 1,213 | |
| 2010s | 547 | |
| 2020s | 199 |
In 1955, its biggest year
Debra was the 4th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1955 were Mary, Deborah, Linda, Debra and Susan. See all of 1955.
Names that rose and fell with Debra
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Deborhapeak 1956
- Luannpeak 1954
- Debbrapeak 1955
- Debroahpeak 1955
- Geralynpeak 1956
- Debrahpeak 1954
- Vickiepeak 1956
- Deborapeak 1957
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.