Given name
Debi
“bee”
Debi is a variant of Deborah. One Hebrew interpretation is “bee.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Debi is a variant of Deborah. One Hebrew interpretation is “bee.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Debi is a variant of Deborah. An origin associated with Deborah is Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1946. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Debi is a variant of Deborah. The history of Deborah gives this family its wider story. Deborah has a place in biblical naming traditions.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Debi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,823
- 0 boys · 3,823 girls
- Most popular year
- 1958
- 504 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2006. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 504 in 1958. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,900 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Debi’s family of names
Debi is an affectionate form of Deborah. In Bengali usage, Debi is a Roman-alphabet rendering of দেবী. Debi has a related form in Deborah.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 5
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Debi
- Debi MazarAmerican actressborn 1964
- Debi ThomasAmerican figure skater and orthopedic surgeonborn 1967
- Debi DerryberryAmerican voice actressborn 1967
- Debi NovaCosta Rican musicianborn 1980
- Debi Sue VoorheesAmerican actressborn 1961
- Debi Mae WestAmerican voice actressborn 1963
- Debi RoyIndian poetborn 1940
- Debi Prasanna PattanayakIndian academicborn 1931
- Debi GlioriScottish children's writer and illustratorborn 1959
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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