Debby

Where Debby comes from

From Deborah + -y.
— Wiktionary's entry for Debby
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1923
    First appearance
    #4,967 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1956
    Debby Boone born
    American singer
  3. 1959
    Peak, #309
    890 babies named Debby — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1963
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #466.
  5. 1989
    Debby Susanto born
    Indonesian badminton player
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Deborah.
Namesakes
  • Debby Boone · American singer, born 1956
  • Debby Susanto · Indonesian badminton player, born 1989
  • Debby Stam · Dutch volleyball player, born 1984
  • Debby Applegate · American biographer, born 1968
  • Debby Willemsz · Dutch water polo player, born 1994

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.