Debie
Debie was last recorded in 1973, when 9 babies were given it; 443 Americans have been recorded with it between 1951 and 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Debie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Debie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,683, in 1973; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
52 babies in 1959, the peak
Debie peaked in 1959, when 52 girls were given it, #1,500 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 9 | #5,683 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,575 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,622 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,086 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,134 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,048 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,189 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,435 | 8.3 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,291 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,612 | 12.1 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 16 | #3,205 | 8.3 |
| 1962 | 36 | #1,921 | 18.3 |
| 1961 | 34 | #2,007 | 16.8 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,450 | 11.9 |
| 1959 | 52 | #1,500 | 25.7 |
| 1958 | 42 | #1,660 | 20.9 |
| 1957 | 29 | #2,034 | 14.2 |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,111 | 13.4 |
| 1955 | 23 | #2,291 | 11.8 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,800 | 8.2 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,148 | 6.9 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,869 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,967 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Debie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Debie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Debie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Debie, and how old are they?
An estimated 373 Americans named Debie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 62 and 69. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 642 people named Debie (630 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 394 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Debie?
Debie is a less common spelling of Debbie: SSA has recorded 443 Debie and 188,287 Debbie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 205,851 babies since 1880, Debie is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 24 babies recorded by SSA was a Debie (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 Debie
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 Debie and names like it
- Compare Debie and DebbieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sDebie peaked in 1959.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Debie since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Debie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Debie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.