Debbie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Deborah
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Debbie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. In India it is the 2nd most common surname.
- CACanada≈1 in 79K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.2Kas Deb
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 3.6Kas Devi
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Debbie itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- #9 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 585 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 named Deb, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Devi in IN India, ID Indonesia, MY Malaysia and 1 more and Dev in NP Nepal, BD Bangladesh.
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)
A diminutive of the female given name Deborah.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Debbie 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #116 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | listed | Dev | 64 |
| IN India | #2 | 84,232as Devi | 1 in 16K | 84K | Devi | 238 |
| ID Indonesia | #289 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | #12 | Devi | 203 |
| MY Malaysia | #339 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 354 | Devi | 72 |
| NP Nepal | — | 7,418as Dev | 1 in 4.1K | 7.4K | Dev | 53 |
| KW Kuwait | #263 | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Devi | 11 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 79K | 4 | Debbie | 263 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Debbie Stabenowb. 1950USAmerican politician (born 1950)
- Debbie Allenb. 1950USAmerican actress, choreographer, television director, television producer, singer, and dancer (born 1950)
- Debbie Turnerb. 1956USAmerican actress
- Debbie Lee Carringtonb. 1959USAmerican actress
- Debbie Wasserman Schultzb. 1966USU.S. Representative from Florida
- Debora Capriogliob. 1968ITnot in their usual nameItalian actress
- Debora Serracchianib. 1970ITnot in their usual nameItalian politician
- Debbie Grahamb. 1970USUS tennis player
- Debbie Mucarsel-Powellb. 1971USEcuadorian-American politician (born 1971)
- Debbie Ferguson-McKenzieb. 1976BSathletics competitor
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(measured from records)
Attested in 61 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2019 | 7 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2023 | 1 | #2,333 |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Debbie?
- In the etymology graph, Debora, Deb and Debi are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Deborah.
- In which country does Debbie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 138 thousand people named Deb in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- What does the name Debbie mean, and where does it come from?
- A diminutive of the female given name Deborah. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- 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.
- How common is the name Debbie?
- In India, the national register counted 84,232 people named Devi, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Debbie compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Debbie is the 116th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Debbie?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/debbieThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Debbie” — the 116th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.