Debi

Where Debi comes from

Debi hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1946
    First appearance
    #4,417 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1958
    Peak, #415
    504 babies named Debi — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1961
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #645.
  4. 1964
    Debi Mazar born
    American actress
  5. 1967
    Debi Thomas born
    American figure skater and orthopedic surgeon
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Debi Mazar · American actress, born 1964
  • Debi Thomas · American figure skater and orthopedic surgeon, born 1967
  • Debi Derryberry · American voice actress, born 1967
  • Debi Diamond · American pornographic actress and nude model, born 1965
  • Debi Nova · Costa Rican musician, born 1980

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.