Devorah
A girls’ name of Hebrew origin, meaning bee; Hebrew spelling of Deborah.
Devorah by the numbers
In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Devorah. In the US, 108 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 126 babies in 2013, making it a 2010s name.
Other names that come from Deborah
Like Devorah, 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 Devorah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a bee
Like Devorah, 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)
- 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)
- Melisabee; a spelling variant of Melissa47 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Devorah
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