Debra
A girls’ name of Hebrew origin, meaning bee; a form of Deborah.
Debra by the numbers
In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Debra. In the US, 44 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 50,555 babies in 1955, so it is a 1950s name that has since fallen a long way.
Other names that come from Deborah
Like Debra, each of these traces back to Deborah: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Debra. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a bee
Like Debra, each of these has a bee in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Melissahoney bee1,168 in the US (2017)
- Melinahoney; form of Melissa or Melina486 in the US (2017)
- Deborahbee68 in England and Wales (2025)
- Honeysweet substance made by bees253 in England and Wales (2025)
- Pamelaall honey; literary coinage by Philip Sidney153 in the US (2017)
- Melindahoney; a blend of Melissa and Belinda128 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Debra
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