girls:
9.7k births since 1923
#1627 (72nd percentile)
overall:
9.7k births since 1923
#2723 (65th percentile)
The name Debby is the #2,723 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,696 recorded births since 1923. This represents the 64.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,627 (71.5% percentile) for all time with 9,696 births since 1923.
Debby first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1923 (first recorded for girls in 1923). Birth data for Debby is available in 88 out of the 94 years between 1923 and 2016. 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, Debby reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 60.4% percentile (ranked #304) with 428 births per million. The name was most common in 1959, with 428 births per million (ranked 60.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Debby".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Debby is pronounced as DEH-bee, which has 2 syllables.
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