Meaning not yet researched.
Debbie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #20 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #20 in 1959; #5,284 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Debbie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,284 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1959, at #20.
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Debbie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 girls in 2025. Peak: #20 in 1959 · most girls in one year: 19,540 (1959).
In 2025, 24 US girls were named Debbie, making it the 5,284th most common girls’ name of the year, down 698 places from #4,586 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 30 girls named Debbie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #20, reached in 1959. That year also had the most girls given the name: 19,540. For comparison, it was #4,888 in 2015 and #221 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Debbie in 136 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 188,287 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 84,393 babies named Debbie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 248 US girls were named Debbie; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 66,969 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Deborah (744,478 babies since 1880), Debra (551,841 babies since 1880), Debora (30,161 babies since 1880) and Debby (9,697 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Debie, Debbye and Dibbie are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Deb, Debby, Deborah and Debra.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Debie (443), Debbye (47), Dibbie (43), Deybi (32), Debbey (5), Debbee (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,284 | — | — |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,586 | — | — |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,672 | — | — |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,683 | — | — |
| 2021 | 30 | #4,535 | — | — |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,138 | — | — |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,482 | — | — |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,833 | — | — |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,409 | — | — |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,178 | — | — |
| 2015 | 28 | #4,888 | — | — |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,861 | — | — |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,050 | — | — |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,318 | — | — |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,713 | — | — |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,530 | — | — |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,692 | — | — |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,660 | — | — |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,935 | — | — |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,821 | — | — |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,527 | — | — |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,453 | — | — |
| 2003 | 67 | #2,445 | — | — |
| 2002 | 75 | #2,206 | — | — |
| 2001 | 74 | #2,200 | — | — |
| 2000 | 75 | #2,148 | — | — |
| 1999 | 89 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 1998 | 95 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 1997 | 125 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 1996 | 131 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 1995 | 142 | #1,210 | — | — |
| 1994 | 175 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 1993 | 178 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 1992 | 184 | #1,021 | — | — |
| 1991 | 228 | #872 | — | — |
| 1990 | 280 | #743 | — | — |
| 1989 | 275 | #720 | — | — |
| 1988 | 262 | #715 | — | — |
| 1987 | 270 | #684 | — | — |
| 1986 | 271 | #680 | — | — |
| 1985 | 311 | #609 | — | — |
| 1984 | 363 | #531 | — | — |
| 1983 | 344 | #544 | — | — |
| 1982 | 413 | #492 | — | — |
| 1981 | 439 | #481 | — | — |
| 1980 | 489 | #439 | — | — |
| 1979 | 552 | #396 | 6 | #5,509 |
| 1978 | 603 | #354 | — | — |
| 1977 | 594 | #365 | — | — |
| 1976 | 700 | #319 | — | — |
| 1975 | 808 | #294 | 5 | #5,662 |
| 1974 | 1,055 | #244 | 8 | #3,910 |
| 1973 | 1,232 | #208 | 8 | #3,784 |
| 1972 | 1,586 | #182 | 8 | #3,705 |
| 1971 | 2,064 | #155 | 13 | #2,712 |
| 1970 | 2,322 | #148 | 8 | #3,589 |
| 1969 | 2,652 | #127 | 11 | #2,734 |
| 1968 | 3,019 | #111 | 8 | #3,166 |
| 1967 | 3,742 | #90 | 6 | #3,643 |
| 1966 | 4,846 | #73 | 13 | #2,247 |
| 1965 | 6,088 | #62 | 13 | #2,290 |
| 1964 | 8,381 | #52 | 20 | #1,804 |
| 1963 | 10,444 | #41 | 24 | #1,634 |
| 1962 | 13,092 | #32 | 28 | #1,487 |
| 1961 | 14,882 | #31 | 26 | #1,574 |
| 1960 | 17,067 | #24 | 31 | #1,440 |
| 1959 | 19,540 | #20 | 48 | #1,119 |
| 1958 | 17,860 | #24 | 41 | #1,210 |
| 1957 | 14,382 | #27 | 38 | #1,270 |
| 1956 | 9,863 | #39 | 20 | #1,771 |
| 1955 | 7,254 | #63 | 23 | #1,621 |
| 1954 | 4,664 | #92 | 16 | #1,979 |
| 1953 | 3,208 | #119 | 6 | #3,510 |
| 1952 | 2,454 | #144 | 6 | #3,445 |
| 1951 | 1,709 | #175 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,163 | #221 | — | — |
| 1949 | 941 | #244 | — | — |
| 1948 | 836 | #267 | — | — |
| 1947 | 598 | #318 | — | — |
| 1946 | 277 | #471 | — | — |
| 1945 | 141 | #612 | — | — |
| 1944 | 132 | #639 | — | — |
| 1943 | 82 | #862 | — | — |
| 1942 | 88 | #816 | — | — |
| 1941 | 76 | #831 | — | — |
| 1940 | 61 | #915 | — | — |
| 1939 | 57 | #930 | — | — |
| 1938 | 51 | #995 | — | — |
| 1937 | 45 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,450 | — | — |
| 1935 | 27 | #1,423 | — | — |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,525 | — | — |
| 1933 | 20 | #1,731 | — | — |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,832 | — | — |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,220 | — | — |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,579 | — | — |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,614 | — | — |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,306 | — | — |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,457 | — | — |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,735 | — | — |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,426 | — | — |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,733 | — | — |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,427 | — | — |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,648 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,296 | — | — |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,761 | — | — |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,681 | — | — |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,557 | — | — |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,211 | — | — |
| 1916 | 17 | #1,967 | — | — |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,286 | — | — |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,697 | — | — |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,744 | — | — |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,015 | — | — |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,717 | — | — |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,413 | — | — |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,593 | — | — |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,181 | — | — |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,157 | — | — |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,999 | — | — |
| 1899 | 8 | #1,197 | — | — |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 1896 | 12 | #967 | — | — |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,142 | — | — |
| 1894 | 11 | #958 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,482 | — | — |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1890 | 9 | #953 | — | — |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,170 | — | — |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 1886 | 10 | #739 | — | — |
| 1884 | 9 | #747 | — | — |
| 1880 | 6 | #767 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).