Debby
Debby is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 309th, in 1959.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1959890 births
- Best rank
- #309in 1959
- Since 1923
- 9,697people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,697 girls have been named Debby in the United States since 1923, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 890 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 890 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1959, and the 1950s alone account for 46%. It has spent 23 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Debby | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 12 | |
| 1930s | 96 | |
| 1940s | 750 | |
| 1950s | 4,460 | |
| 1960s | 3,354 | |
| 1970s | 564 | |
| 1980s | 216 | |
| 1990s | 127 | |
| 2000s | 73 | |
| 2010s | 45 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Debby was the 309th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1959 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Debby
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Geralynpeak 1956
- Kathipeak 1958
- Kathypeak 1958
- Pattipeak 1958
- Cathypeak 1958
- Debbipeak 1958
- Vickeypeak 1957
- Deborapeak 1957
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.