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Debi

Girls' name

Diminutive of Deborah

Debi has been given to 3,823 babies in the U.S. since 1946. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1958, with 504 recorded.

Babies named Debi, 2006

1 in 659,000

Debi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Debi: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Deborah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Debi means

Debi is a diminutive of Deborah.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Debi is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈdɛb.i/ for Debi.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Debi → Deborah → דְּבוֹרָה. The family’s meaning is “bee”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements dVbr-.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Deborah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,823 girls were recorded with the name Debi between 1946 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 504 in 1958; its best national rank was #415 in 1958.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Debi?

Debi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 659,000
6 of 3,956,166 births
Among girls only
1 in 317,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
457,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Debi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 457,035 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Debi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Debis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Debi was born before 1960 — so the typical Debi is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
48.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,774
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 48.6% of all recorded uses (1,857).

Is Debi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1958 (504)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#415
1958

Spellings of Debi

Debi is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 47.0% against Debi's 0.33%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Debi is used

Across 1910–2025, Debi was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 59,287 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 20,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 20,000
  3. 3California1 in 25,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 33,333
  5. 5Colorado1 in 50,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 50,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 50,000
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Debi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Debi around the world

Where Debi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Scotland
    1985–1990
    #615
    in 1990
  • South Australia
    1959–1959
    #625
    in 1959

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Debi

People whose public names include Debi, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Debi in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Debi. Linked forms have their own page here.

Debbie

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Debi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#415
1958
Peak year
1958
504 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
3,823
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Debi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DebbiDebbraDebrahDebbyDebDeboraDebanhiDeberaDebyDebieDebroahDebeDebbeDeborhaDebanyDebaraDebriaDebarDebbieDeborrahDebraDeberahDeborhDebborah

Names with a curve like Debi

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Debi, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DebbraGeralynLiseRoxaneCathiDebrahVickeyMerriKathiBarbTereseBeckie

Sibling names for Debi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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