first name
DEBBIE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 144,402 people named Debbie, 80.5% reported their origin as White, 7.3% as Black and 6.5% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Debbie peaked in 1959, when 19,588 babies got the name.
At least 188,287 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Debbie by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #96. The largest share of babies named Debbie, 79.1%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Debbie is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Debbie has been most common in Wyoming (1.8×), New Mexico (1.7×), and Montana (1.7×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.56×).
184,913 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Debbie, most common first.
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