Debi
Debi was last recorded in 2006, when 6 babies were given it; 3,823 Americans have been recorded with it between 1946 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,230 Americans named Debi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 62 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Debi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Debi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,610, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
504 babies in 1958, the peak
Debi peaked in 1958, when 504 girls were given it, #415 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 6 | #15,610 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,157 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,854 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,774 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,117 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,489 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,207 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,360 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,001 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,851 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 11 | #6,128 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,417 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,214 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,207 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,031 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,306 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,268 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,807 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,978 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,112 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,660 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,132 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 33 | #2,319 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 34 | #2,237 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 44 | #1,938 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 50 | #1,788 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 62 | #1,503 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 54 | #1,562 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 62 | #1,403 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 65 | #1,354 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 92 | #1,090 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 145 | #864 | 0.08 |
| 1963 | 172 | #792 | 0.09 |
| 1962 | 232 | #670 | 0.12 |
| 1961 | 251 | #645 | 0.12 |
| 1960 | 358 | #509 | 0.18 |
| 1959 | 429 | #464 | 0.21 |
| 1958 | 504 | #415 | 0.25 |
| 1957 | 380 | #488 | 0.19 |
| 1956 | 193 | #688 | 0.10 |
| 1955 | 127 | #862 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 79 | #1,110 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 59 | #1,263 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 37 | #1,583 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 34 | #1,641 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,687 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,647 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,343 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,506 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,541 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Debi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Debi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Debi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Debi, and how old are they?
3,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 3,823 Americans ever recorded as Debi. The median Debi alive today is 66 years old; half are between 62 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 4,900 people named Debi (4,859 women and girls, 41 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,407 born in the U.S. The Census count is 44% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,530 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 566 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 120 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 17 |
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 Debi born?
The states with the most babies named Debi are California, Ohio and Texas, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 609 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Ohio | 216 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 158 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 154 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 148 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Washington | 121 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Illinois | 118 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 106 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Oregon | 77 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Florida | 76 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Debi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Debi is most over-represented in Washington: since 1946 it was given 2.0 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 Debi 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 Debi?
Debi is a less common spelling of Debbie: SSA has recorded 3,823 Debi and 188,287 Debbie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 205,851 babies since 1880, Debi is the third most given (1.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 24 babies recorded by SSA was a Debi (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 Debi
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 Debi and names like it
- Compare Debi and DebbieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDebi peaked in 1958.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Debi since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Debi.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Debi alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.