Deborah
53
Babies in 2024
-31%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 118
-4%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Deborah
Deborah peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (118 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 53 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Deborah reached its peak in 1996, when 118 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #302 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 53 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 2,197 girls have been officially registered with the name Deborah in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 632 girls were registered with the name, starting from 77 in 2014 and ending at 53 in 2024.