A young Deborah?

[Homingirl]

How would you feel about meeting a young Deborah? Would you be horrified or pleasantly surprised?
It's a name that keeps coming up, which we are now seriously considering.

Love it. Reminds me of Cranford and a really lovely girl I went to school with. Biblical, classic.

Love it. I had a friend called Deborah when I was a teenager. It wasn’t a popular name at the time and it seemed very unusual and unique. Also reminds me of the Pulp song. My dh would never go for it if I had another girl but it would be top of my list.

Omg no, you can’t. All these posters saying it’s great wouldn’t actually want to be called Debbie themselves.

I really like the name. She doesn't have to answer to Debbie anymore than Victoria B would answer to Vicky, or the Queen would have answered to Liz 🙂

Nice name

I know a 15 year old Deborah. Christian family though; siblings also have biblical names which I would consider unusual in this day and age.

Love Deborah and Deb. Hate Debbie.

I went to school with a Debbie who was a few years younger than me. She would have been born around 1990 and was a lovely girl.

It doesn't seem an odd name choice to me. Deborah is a normal name and is a refreshing change from all of the Sophias and Willows about at the moment.

I’d think poor girl, there’s so many other much nicer names to choose.

I’m a Debra, named after Debra Paget the American actress. I’ve never liked it, doesn’t feel like it’s me. Most people call me Deb or Debs, don’t really like Debbie. I definitely wouldn’t use it for a child of mine, as PP said much nicer names around.

It’s a beautiful name. I’d have loved to have called our daughter Deborah but DH was not on board. To be fair, it was because he hates the name Debbie and I’m with him on that.

If you want to use a similar name but avoid the nickname Debbie, you could call her Devorah. It means bee in Hebrew.

I think it's nice.
Possible nickname - Bee.

Devorah is lovely too, as is Dvorah, and so are both versions without the H.
Possible nickname - Dori.

No way, please don't do this to your baby!

Really nice name , use it people will actually like it .

Her name was Deborah. It never suited her.

That is what I think of. But a bit cool because -Jarvis.

I think you could do a LOT worse!

it’s unusual these days but not weird, perfect 🤩

I love biblical names so it’s a yes from me!

Dd1 (8) has Deborah as a middle name, occasionally she's been toying with it as a first name as hers is a top 10 which is fine by us

Don't know anyone else with it as a first name other than who she was named after

I like Debbie.

70’s name, not keen

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Fair enough if she wanted to call the baby Lamborghini or McKinsleyavanisha or something but Deborah? Come on, it's a normal name, not child abuse 🙄

If you don't like it then that's ok, comment with that and you can even say why (you think it's dated, you don't like the meaning or sound or whatever) but 'Don't do this to your baby' is a little ridiculous.

I’d be very surprised to meet a young Deborah. Not horrified, but not pleasantly surprised either. I’d assume you’d named her after a Deborah rather than choosing the name independently. While I can’t say I like the name, I see the appeal though Deb and Debbie both aren’t to my tastes. It’s still very 1960’s and I think there’s a few more years before it’s ripe for revival.

As a PP has said I would assume you had named the child after a family member or close friend etc. There are so so many lovely girls names around that I think you could probably find something more suitable to this era, I don’t think it’s ready for it’s revival just yet. I don’t much like Debbie as a nn either. That being said, totally up to you what you name baby but if you don’t like the nn Debbie either then I wouldn’t call her Deborah as that’s what it’s likely the naturally end up as.

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