Debbie
Debbie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 30 births. Its best rank was 20th, in 1959.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 300.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 195919,542 births
- Best rank
- #20in 1959
- Since 1880
- 187,828people given the name
The story in the numbers
187,828 girls have been named Debbie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 19,542 births — 0.97% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 30 births in 2024, against 19,542 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1960, and the 1960s alone account for 45%. It has spent 60 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 14 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Debbie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 38 | |
| 1890s | 75 | |
| 1900s | 64 | |
| 1910s | 87 | |
| 1920s | 109 | |
| 1930s | 295 | |
| 1940s | 3,232 | |
| 1950s | 82,099 | |
| 1960s | 84,208 | |
| 1970s | 11,516 | |
| 1980s | 3,438 | |
| 1990s | 1,628 | |
| 2000s | 612 | |
| 2010s | 297 | |
| 2020s | 130 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Debbie was the 20th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1959 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Debbie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Debipeak 1958
- Debbipeak 1958
- Debpeak 1958
- Barbpeak 1960
- Debbypeak 1959
- Pampeak 1959
- Bevpeak 1959
- Cindypeak 1957
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.