How Many People Are Named Debby?
people named Debby are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 42,542 people in the US has this name
Based on 9,697 babies named Debby in Social Security records from 1923 to 2016, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
890 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Diminutive of DEBORAH.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Debby in English. Counting Debby and these spellings together, about 173,784 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Debby in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Debby alive today is about 64 years old, and 81% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 61 and 69 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Debby first appears in the records in 1923 and was given most often in 1959, to 890 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2016.
Babies given the name each year, 1923 to 2016
🏆 Rank History
Debby has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #309, in 1959.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #309 (1959) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #423 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Debby alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Debby were born in California than in any other state: about 847 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Debby was given 2 times as often in Oregon, 2 times in Washington and 1.5 times in California.
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