Deb
Last seen for girls in 1972 at #8,292
- Peak · girls
- 1958 · 236 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,450since 1953
Deb over time
Rank among girls' names. Deb has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 |
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| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 |
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| 1967 | #3,845 | 12 |
| 1966 | #3,040 | 17 |
| 1965 | #1,914 | 36 |
| 1964 | #1,443 | 61 |
| 1963 | #1,218 | 81 |
| 1962 | #1,058 | 104 |
| 1961 | #899 | 144 |
| 1960 | #718 | 201 |
| 1959 | #652 | 236 |
| 1958 | #642 | 236 |
| 1957 | #760 | 172 |
| 1956 | #1,298 | 64 |
| 1955 | #1,877 | 32 |
| 1954 | #2,186 | 24 |
| 1953 | #4,595 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Deb! It came in at #4,595, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1968, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Deb is popular in 1957
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Dakota#159 · 1 in 708
- Michigan#276 · 1 in 2,162
- Ohio#336 · 1 in 3,267
- Minnesota#341 · 1 in 3,496
- Iowa#357 · 1 in 3,569
Best ever in a state: #159 in South Dakota, 1957.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| South Dakota | #159 | 10 | 1 in 708 |
| Michigan | #276 | 44 | 1 in 2,162 |
| Ohio | #336 | 34 | 1 in 3,267 |
| Minnesota | #341 | 11 | 1 in 3,496 |
| Iowa | #357 | 8 | 1 in 3,569 |
| Wisconsin | #425 | 7 | 1 in 6,275 |
| Indiana | #508 | 8 | 1 in 6,488 |
| Pennsylvania | #643 | 10 | 1 in 11,812 |
| New York | #1,114 | 6 | 1 in 28,238 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Deb
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1972
- Biggest jump: 538 spots in 1957 (#1,298 → #760)
- Biggest drop: 181 spots in 1961 (#718 → #899)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 1958 at #642 (236 births)
- Births halved by 1962, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1957–1961
- Highest: 1 in 8,524 girls born in 1958 were named Deb (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 304,249 girls born in 1972 (0.00%)
- 53.2% of all girls named Deb (771) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 771 | #642 (1958) | #1,716 |
| 1960s | 667 | #718 (1960) | #2,061 |
| 1970s | 12 | #6,619 (1971) | #7,456 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Deb in 1957
Top girls' names in 1957
More about 1957
girls
2,044,851 girls got a published name in 1957; 1 in 11,889 of them was named Deb, which outranked 89.2% of the 7,015 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).