Debí

given name · Latin script

Meaning: first-person singular preterite indicative of deber

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

Debí is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • USUnited States1 in 68K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 332K
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 637K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

4,900 people, 2020

Record sources
153 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Debi in US United States, BR Brazil, GT Guatemala.

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

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

first-person singular preterite indicative of deber

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Debí counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Debí is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4,9001 in 68K4.9KDebi153
NL Netherlands521 in 332K118—2
BR Brazil331 in 6.4M50Debi20
GT Guatemala≈13 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Debi6
CR Costa Rica81 in 637K8—8
MD Moldova11 in 3.4M1——

4,900 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Debí is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, India, United States, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Debi

  • English given name13 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Debi, Debī

1 further group 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Debí under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Debí mean, and where does it come from?
first-person singular preterite indicative of deber Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Debí a male or female name?
Debí is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Which countries have the most people named Debí?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Debí, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled debi. After it come Netherlands, Brazil, Guatemala and Costa Rica; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Debí most common?
Debí is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 68 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Debí?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,900 people named Debí in 2020, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Debí”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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