girls:
1.4k births since 1953
#4287 (25th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1953
#6295 (19th percentile)
The name Deb is the #6,295 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,450 recorded births since 1953. This represents the 18.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,287 (25.0% percentile) for all time with 1,450 births since 1953.
Deb first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1953 (first recorded for girls in 1953). Birth data for Deb is available in 18 out of the 20 years between 1953 and 1972. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Deb reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 28.8% percentile (ranked #545) with 114 births per million. The name was most common in 1958, with 114 births per million (ranked 28.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1972.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Deb".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Deb is pronounced as dehb, which has 1 syllables.
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