Debora

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic form of the Hebrew name דְּבוֹרָה (Devorah) = 'bee' [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Bee
Bee
Image by Hans Hillewaert,[7]
licensed under Creative Commons

Related Names

Debora
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Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Debóra
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Icelandic
Deborah
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Debra
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Danish Norwegian Swedish

See also Debbie, Típôra

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Deboruson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Deborudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Debora
Genitive: Deboras
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Debora
Accusative: Deboru
Dative: Deboru
Genitive: Deboru
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Debora
Genitive: Deboran
Partitive: Deboraa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Debora
Accusative: Deboru
Dative: Deboru
Genitive: Deboru
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Debora
Genitive: Deboras
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Debora
Genitive: Deboras

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Bible

  • In the Old Testament Debora was a heroine and prophetess who led the Israelites to defeat Canaanites. It was also the name of the nurse of Rebekka.

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 633 people were named Debora (percentage of first or only given name: 10 %) [10]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[11]
248 607 248 607 0 0
Greenland Greenland[12]
62 227
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[13]
88
n.a.
88
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[14]
n.a.
139
n.a.
139 0 0
Iceland Iceland[15]
6 8
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[16]
121
n.a.
121
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Debora (f) Sources: [17]


References

  1. Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  6. Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  7. Wikimedia Commons: Image by Hans Hillewaert, source & license
  8. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  9. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  11. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  14. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  15. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  16. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  17. details see Name Statistic tables