Entry № 2694 · Hebrew origin

Dvora Dvora — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ deh-VOH-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Bee (Yiddish-Hebrew + Prophetess Deborah Book of Judges)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "bee (yiddish-hebrew + prophetess deborah book of judges)".

Dvora is from the Yiddish דבורה (Dvora) — Yiddish-Ashkenazi rendition of Hebrew דְּבוֹרָה (Devorah — bee). Dvora is one of the Yiddish + Hebrew feminine names — central to traditional Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. 12th-c.

Bee (Yiddish-Hebrew + Prophetess Deborah Book of Judges) — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

דבורה
Transliteration
Devorah
Pronunciation
/ dɛˈvoʊ.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dvora stands.

Dvora does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Dvoras before her.

Real people

In fiction
Prophetess Deborah
Israelite prophetess + judge + Song of Deborah Judges 5.

Names connected to Dvora.

The number behind Dvora.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dvora reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.