Debbie
The girl's name Debbie has been in the national records since 1880, with 188,287 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 5,238th. About 160,000 Debbies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Debbie boys named Debbie
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 188,287
- Estimated living today
- 160,000
- Median age today
- 65
- Peak year
- 1959
- Best rank
- 20th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,238th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 187,853 / 434
How old the living Debbies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 188,287 babies given the name since 1880, about 160,000 are alive — 85 in every hundred. Roughly 540 of them are children and 84,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Debbies
- Debbie Reynolds (1932–2016)American actress, singer, and dancer
- Debbie Harry (born 1945)American singer, songwriter and actress, frontwoman of Blondie
- Debbie Allen (born 1950)American actress, choreographer, television director, television producer, singer, and dancer
- Debbie Stabenow (born 1950)American politician
- Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie (born 1976)athletics competitor
- Debbie Gibson (born 1970)American singer and actress
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz (born 1966)U.S. Representative from Florida
- Debbie Meyer (born 1952)American swimmer
People named Debbie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Debbie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Debbie is most concentrated in Wyoming (1.8×), New Mexico (1.7×), Montana (1.7×), Oregon (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1959
The most popular girls’ names the year Debbie peaked:
Debbie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland girls | Debbie | 2,585 | 38th |
| New Zealand girls | Debbie | 1,389 | 68th |
| England and Wales girls | Debbie | 346 | 571st |
| Ireland girls | Debbie | 204 | 251st |
| Belgium girls | Debbie | 74 | 462nd |
| France girls | Debbie | 65 | 7,035th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Debbie | 4 | 291st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Debbie: rank by region
In 2000, Debbie was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Debbie | 429 | 11 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Debbie among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Debbie | 3,208 | 3,378 |
| the Netherlands boys | Debbie | — | 23 |
| Finland girls | Debbie | 16 | 17 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Debbie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.