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Debra vs Deborah - What's the difference?

debra | deborah | Alternative forms |

Deborah is a alternative form of debra.



As proper nouns the difference between debra and deborah

is that debra is {{given name|female|from=Hebrew}} popular in the 1950s and the 1960s while Deborah is a judge of Israel; a nurse of Rebecca.

debra

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • popular in the 1950s and the 1960s.
  • * 1966 , Run Away, Little Girl , Random House, 1966, page 6
    • "She's Debra Jean," the children shouted in chorus. "We decided last night with Daddy." - - - So her name is Debbie, I thought to myself. With a pretty name and a family to love her this baby has to make it.

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    deborah

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (as a given name) Debra, Debora

    Proper noun

    (Deborahs)
  • A judge of Israel; a nurse of Rebecca.
  • * :
    • And Deborah , a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
  • , popular from the 1940s to the 1970s, first in the USA, then in the UK.
  • * 1851 James Brayshay: The Protector of Houghall, Or the Lily and the Rose . Groombridge and Sons, 1851. Act I:
    • 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!
  • * 1995 Carl Hiaasen: Stormy Weather . Alfred A.Knopf,Inc. ISBN 0679419829 page 256:
    • 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 .

    Related terms

    * Deb * Debbie * Debby