Debbie

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Debbie is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In India it is the 2nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Deborah.

rarermore common
  • NZNew Zealand1 in 835◐
  • CACanada1 in 922
  • AUAustralia1 in 1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈101K ●

across 11 countries

#15 ●

of 21M surnames

9 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
532 ●

48M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 4.1K ◐

Nepal

Spellings & scripts●

DeviLatin · Hindi●54M records
দেবBengali · Bangla●13K records
דביHebrew · Hebrew●4K records
ดูวาThai · Thai●268 records
ДэвиCyrillic · Russian●234 records
데비Hangul · Korean●2 records
දේවSinhala · Sinhala●1 records
ದೕವKannada · Kannada●0 records
దవTelugu · Telugu●0 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Devi in IN India, ID Indonesia, MY Malaysia, Dev in FR France, NP Nepal, Deb in BD Bangladesh and דבי in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

A diminutive of the female given name Deborah.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Debbie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom—198,690181K rec.—4Debbie254
AU Australia—113,61495K rec.—88Debbie214
CA Canada—90,18489K rec.—4Debbie203
IN India#284,23245M rec.1 in 16K84KDevi224
BD Bangladesh#26174,2607.3K rec.—listedDeb56
ID Indonesia#30127,39915K rec.—#12Devi192
PH Philippines—17,02716K rec.——Debbie103
IT Italy—15,49116K rec.—120Debbie52
MY Malaysia#42510,94433K rec.—354Devi65
DE Germany—10,72911K rec.—1Debbie96
NZ New Zealand—10,2198.6K rec.—13Debbie119
SG Singapore#3199,98811K rec.——Debbie90

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English2.8M82%
  • 190K5%
  • Spanish98K3%
  • German26K1%
  • French24K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English2,844,10782%
189,5355%
Spanish97,5343%
German26,2171%
French23,8621%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Debbie is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name168K records spelled Debbie9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Brazil, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Débbie, Dēbbíe, Dëbbîë

  • English given name14K records spelled Debbie13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, Chinese, Burmese

    Also written Debbi, Dêbbie, Dëbbïe

  • Indonesian given name9.6K records spelled Debbie4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Dëbbîê, Dëbbië

61 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Debbie is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Diminutif anglais de Deborah/Déborah, hébreu dĕbōrāh « abeille ».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In German, ) Debby: weibl. Vom., englische

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05K10K15K20K19001950200020K · 1959

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Debbie in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
18806
18849
188610
18887
18896
18909
18917
18928
18935
189411
18959
189612
18986
18998
19005
19019
19027
19039
190511
19067
19079
19087
19117
191211
19148
191513
191617
19176
191813
191912
192012
19215
192213
19239
19248
19259
192612
192714
192815
192912
193012
193114
193219
193320
193424
193527
193626
193745
193851
193957
194061
194176
194288
194382
1944132
1945141
1946277
1947598
1948836
1949941
19501,163
19511,709
19522,454
19533,208
19544,664
19557,254
19569,863
195714,382
195817,860
195919,540
196017,067
196114,882
196213,092
196310,444
19648,381
19656,088
19664,846
19673,742
19683,019
19692,652
19702,322
19712,064
19721,586
19731,232
19741,055
1975808
1976700
1977594
1978603
1979552
1980489
1981439
1982413
1983344
1984363
1985311
1986271
1987270
1988262
1989275
1990280
1991228
1992184
1993178
1994175
1995142
1996131
1997125
199895
199989
200075
200174
200275
200367
200469
200542
200662
200761
200844
200943
201045
201130
201234
201327
201439
201528
201626
201724
201821
201923
202019
202130
202222
202329
202430
202524

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 136 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1950196019701980Debbie Stabenow, b. 1950Debbie Allen, b. 1950Debbie Turner, b. 1956Debbie Lee Carrington, b. 1959Debbie Wasserman Schultz, b. 1966Debora Caprioglio, b. 1968Debora Serracchiani, b. 1970Debbie Graham, b. 1970Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, b. 1971Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie, b. 1976

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 60 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Debbie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020144K#389
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—3.4K#564
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—3.2K#997
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025316#302
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—298#792
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020194#389
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—155#6,320
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000113#136,783
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—113#2,003
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020102—
AU AustraliaNSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present)197588#89
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—84#8,696

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 622 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Debbie?
We estimate roughly 101 thousand people bear Debbie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Debbie have the most bearers?
Debbie is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled debbie.
How common is Debbie compared with other names?
In India, Debbie is the 2nd most common surname of 2,352,292 surnames recorded there.
Is Debbie a male or female name?
Debbie is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Debbie mean?
Recorded meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Deborah.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Debbie” — the 2nd most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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