Deborah

plural Deborahs · alternative Debra · alternative Debora

1. countableuncountablebiblicalA judge of Israel.

   And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

2. countableuncountablebiblicalA nurse of Rebecca.
3. countableuncountableA female given name from Hebrew, popular from the 1940s to the 1970s, first in the USA, then in the UK.

   Your name is Deborah, Deborah / It never suited ya

   1995, “Disco 2000”, in Different Class, performed by Pulp

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   Rapier. Heigho! Deborah! it's an ugly name, a damnable name - the name I mean! - it sounds like Gomorrah! Deb! Debby! - worse still - sounded sharp now I rather like it! - Deborah! Deborah! Deborah!

   1851, James Brayshay, The Protector of Houghall, Or the Lily and the Rose, Groombridge and Sons, act I

   He hadn't known, for example, that her middle name was Deborah. It was a name he liked: plucky, Midwestern and reliable-sounding. He was willing to bet that if you went through every women's prison in America, you wouldn't find a half-dozen Deborahs.

   1995, Carl Hiaasen, Stormy Weather, Alfred A.Knopf,Inc., →ISBN, page 256

   Frecklington also announced the appointment of former Queensland police officer Deborah Platz as the state’s new human rights commissioner, succeeding Scott McDougall, who criticised both sides of politics over a range of issues, particularly the state’s youth law and order crackdown.

   2025 December 11, Andrew Messenger, “New Queensland laws overturning ban on property developer donations will ‘legalise another avenue of corruption’, Greens say”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 31 May 2026