Debbi
Debbi was last recorded in 1993, when 5 babies were given it; 2,973 Americans have been recorded with it between 1942 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,500 Americans named Debbi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 61 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Debbi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Debbi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,032, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
297 babies in 1958, the peak
Debbi peaked in 1958, when 297 girls were given it, #569 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 | #14,032 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,868 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,206 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,563 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,376 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,466 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,879 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,328 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,766 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,803 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 7 | #7,808 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,704 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,296 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,659 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,566 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,580 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,860 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 53 | #1,714 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 60 | #1,584 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 58 | #1,565 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 71 | #1,312 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 63 | #1,384 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 81 | #1,191 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 102 | #1,035 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 122 | #951 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 134 | #910 | 0.07 |
| 1962 | 170 | #802 | 0.09 |
| 1961 | 166 | #816 | 0.08 |
| 1960 | 225 | #678 | 0.11 |
| 1959 | 244 | #639 | 0.12 |
| 1958 | 297 | #569 | 0.15 |
| 1957 | 267 | #592 | 0.13 |
| 1956 | 149 | #812 | 0.07 |
| 1955 | 121 | #883 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 89 | #1,039 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 72 | #1,138 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 55 | #1,288 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 32 | #1,713 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,363 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,970 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,787 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 22 | #2,096 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,084 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,139 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,767 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Debbi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Debbi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Debbi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Debbi, and how old are they?
2,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 2,973 Americans ever recorded as Debbi. The median Debbi alive today is 66 years old; half are between 61 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 2,838 people named Debbi (2,834 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,643 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,840 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 600 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 61 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Debbi born?
The states with the most babies named Debbi are California, New York and Illinois, with 44% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 400 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New York | 200 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 134 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 132 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 115 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 110 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 100 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Washington | 66 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Missouri | 48 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Wisconsin | 47 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Debbi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Debbi is most over-represented in California: since 1942 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Debbi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Debbi?
Debbi is a less common spelling of Debbie: SSA has recorded 2,973 Debbi and 188,287 Debbie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 205,851 babies since 1880, Debbi is the fourth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 24 babies recorded by SSA was a Debbi (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Debbi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Debbi and names like it
- Compare Debbi and DebbieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDebbi peaked in 1958.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Debbi since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Debbi.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Debbi alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.