Debía
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Debía is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of deber.
- ARArgentina1 in 108K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 15K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 213K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
441 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Debia in AR Argentina, CL Chile, VE Venezuela and 3 more.
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/third-person singular imperfect indicative of deber
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Debía 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 441 | 1 in 3M | 441 | — | 3 |
| AR Argentina | 421 | 1 in 108K | 421 | Debia | 31 |
| UY Uruguay | 231 | 1 in 15K | 231 | Debia | 12 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 213K | — | Debia | 10 |
| BR Brazil | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | 63 | Debia | 33 |
| CL Chile | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 216K | 1 | Debia | 23 |
| CO Colombia | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 897K | — | Debia | 19 |
441 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Debía mean, and where does it come from?
- first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of deber Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Debía have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 441 people named Debía, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Debía most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Debía is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Debía?
- In India, the national register counted 441 people named Debía, about 1 in 3.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Debía?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/deb%C3%ADaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Debía”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.