Déb

given name · Latin script

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

Déb is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 11,607 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.

  • USUnited States1 in 29K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland≈1 in 970K
  • FRFrance≈1 in 1.6M

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)

11,607 people, 2020

Record sources
122 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Deb in US United States, FR France, BR Brazil 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)
recorded in Romanian

, cf. sl. vdeb pupaza" (Mikl). 1. Debu (VM) ; P. pr. ard. ; Gh. (Met 303) ; Debul (Ard II 178) ; -esti fam. (Bordeni) ; Debi t (ib). 2. Prob. Dtbul (Gorj 102) ; Diabul, 1656 (Hris I 231). 3. Deba f., 1722 (Pas). 4. Debel, Nan (Cat). 5. ± Dabu Dabela b (D Gorj). *DEBR- 1. Debrici (C tef). 2. Debril, Pavel (16 A III 467) traducator de acte din sec. al XVIII-lea. 3. Cf. orasul balcanic Dibra, In blg. Debara ; cf. srb. Debre loc. intre Belgrad $abat, Debretin, ora' In Ungaria.

Cited for this meaning 3

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Wiktionary
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Déb 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 Déb is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—11,6071 in 29K11KDeb122
FR France—≈43 est.≈1 in 1.6MlistedDeb107
BR Brazil—≈13 est.≈1 in 16M278Deb39
CH Switzerland—≈9 est.≈1 in 971K27—3
IT Italy—≈5 est.≈1 in 12MlistedDeb16
PL Poland—41 in 9.6M9——
BE Belgium—≈1 est.≈1 in 8.8M14Deb11
NC New Caledonia#373———Deb5

11,607 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)

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

  • English given name17 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Chinese

    Also written Deb, Dëb, Dêb

  • Croatian given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Deb, Деб, Dèb

4 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Déb is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In bnt-pro, wander

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

  • In bnt-pro, speak

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

  • In bnt-pro, parler

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

  • In bnt-pro, errer

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Déb 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

Is Déb a male or female name?
Déb 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 Déb?
In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Déb, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled deb. After it come France, Brazil, Switzerland and Italy; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Déb most common?
Déb is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 29 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Déb?
In the United States, the national register counted 11,607 people named Déb in 2020, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
How common is Déb compared with other names?
In New Caledonia, Déb is the 373rd most common given name of 870 given names recorded there.

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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, “Déb” — ranked 2245th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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