Debra

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Deborah in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 20 more and דבורה in IL Israel, PL Poland, LB Lebanon and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Debra is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name344K records spelled Debra2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

  Also written Debrá

• Polish given name27K records spelled Debra25 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia

  Languages: Polish, Czech, Russian

  Also written Dobra, Debrah, Дебра, Dobrá

• Hungarian given name8.0K records spelled Debra4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Hungary, United States, United Kingdom, Finland

  Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Débra

• a separate given name1.8K records spelled Debra2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand

  Also written Dēbrå

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Debra 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.

• In German, weibl. Vom., englische Kurzform von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In zlw-osk, gorge, ravine

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 111 years between 1914–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Debra Pagetb. 1933USAmerican actress and entertainer (born 1933)
• Debra Mooneyb. 1947USAmerican actress
• Debra Monkb. 1949USAmerican actress
• Debra Jo Ruppb. 1951USAmerican actress
• Debra Wingerb. 1955USAmerican actress
• Debra Neil-Fisherb. 1958USAmerican film editor
• Debra Wilsonb. 1962USAmerican actress
• Debra Granikb. 1963USAmerican film director, screenwriter and cinematographer
• Debra Messingb. 1968USAmerican actress (born 1968)
• Debra Haywardb. 2000GBBritish film producer (born 1964)

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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 706 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Debra?

We estimate roughly 977 thousand people bear Debra (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.

In which country does Debra have the most bearers?

Debra is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled deborah.

How common is Debra compared with other names?

In the United Kingdom, Debra is the 30th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.

Is Debra a male or female name?

Debra 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.

What does the name Debra mean?

Recorded meaning: A female given name from Hebrew popular in the 1950s and the 1960s.