How rare is the name Debby?

8,026 people in the United States have the first name Debby, about 1 in 37,632. It ranks #2,869 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

DEBBY

#2,869

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,026
About
1 in 37,632
This common or more
81.1%
Who bears it

Of the 8,026 people named Debby, 81.3% reported their origin as White, 6.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.8% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Debby peaked in 1959, when 890 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19232016
Peak year
1959
Births that year
890
In 2016
8 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 9,697 babies have been given the name since 1923. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Debby by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1950s, when it ranked #763. The largest share of babies named Debby, 78.3%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).

1920s#11,45212
1930s#4,82096
1940s#1,627750
1950s#7634,460
1960s#9573,354
1970s#2,745564
1980s#6,043216
1990s#11,089127
2000s#19,63473
2010s#25,46445
Greatest Generation 1901–270.1%
Silent Generation 1928–452.5%
Baby boom 1946–6478.3%
Generation X 1965–8014.7%
Millennials 1981–962.9%
Generation Z 1997–121.2%
2013 and later0.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Debby is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Debby has been most common in Oregon (1.9×), Washington (1.8×), and Ohio (1.6×), and least common in Mississippi (0.31×).

7,593 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.

Exactly as common as Debby

1 other first name also has 8,026 people.

#2,869 Claudine · 8,026

Either side of Debby

#2,868 Cristy · 8,027#2,869 Claudine · 8,026#2,871 Zaria · 8,017#2,872 Oksana · 8,013

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Debby, most common first.

#5,850 Debbi · 2,838#24,676 Deby · 389#29,411 Debbe · 301#31,031 Deiby · 278#47,857 Debbye · 135

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