Debbie

Where Debbie comes from

From Deborah + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Debbie
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1950
    Debbie Stabenow born
    American politician
  3. 1950
    Debbie Allen born
    American actress, choreographer, television director, television producer, singer, and dancer
  4. 1959
    Peak, #20
    19,540 babies named Debbie — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1964
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #52.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Deborah.
Namesakes
  • Debbie Allen · American actress, choreographer, television director, television producer, singer, and dancer, born 1950
  • Debbie Stabenow · American politician, born 1950
  • Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie · Bahamian athletics competitor, born 1976
  • Debbie Wasserman Schultz · U.S. Representative from Florida, born 1966
  • Debbie Dunn · American sprinter, born 1978

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.