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Deborah.

Name formation documented in dictionary sources

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Language / origin
Origin not established
Gender context
Girl
Letters
7
Words
1
Syllables / divisions
3
First letter
D
Evidence layers
2

Synthetic Filipino reading. Personal and regional pronunciations can differ.

THE MEANING & THE CONTEXT

The story behind Deborah

Deborah is recorded as a female given name in Cebuano. Its individual lexical definition is supplied below. The entry’s language identifies where this name sense is documented, without establishing an ultimate etymological origin.

Pronunciation & syllables

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Cebuano

De · bo · rah3 source divisions

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English

  • /ˈdɛb(ə)ɹə/UK
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Wiktionary contributors / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0

Origin and name formation

Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.

Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads

People with the name Deborah

Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.

The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).

Use in Philippine-linked records

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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim

Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Deborah Carlos Valencia

PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS

Deborah in the birth records

Exact spelling, stated year, published top-ten tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.

No exact-spelling count for Deborah appears in the PSA top-ten tables included here. This does not mean zero births or prove that the name is rare.

Available publications: 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. No 2021 count is inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →

Similar names to Deborah

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What rhymes with Deborah?

No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.

Names with a similar written ending

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Follow the sources

  1. Wikidata given-name item Q18558974 — Deborah (opens in a new tab)

    Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.

  2. Wikidata — Deborah Carlos Valencia (opens in a new tab)

    Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q18558974 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.

  3. Wiktionary contributors — Deborah (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)

    Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.

  4. Wiktionary contributors — Deborah (English) (opens in a new tab)

    Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.