Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Debra” in the USA?

Number of people named “Debra” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Debra” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Debra” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Debra” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Debra” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Debra” by birth year

This chart shows how “Debra” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1914 5 0.00000353 5 100%
1915 9 0.000004912 9 100%
1916 5 0.000002585 5 100%
1917 7 0.000003488 7 100%
1918 9 0.000004145 9 100%
1919 6 0.000002843 6 100%
1920 7 0.000003094 7 100%
1922 5 0.000002184 5 100%
1923 10 0.000004343 10 100%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 100%
1925 11 0.000004714 11 100%
1926 12 0.000005227 12 100%
1927 12 0.000005174 12 100%
1928 12 0.000005308 12 100%
1929 17 0.000007755 17 100%
1930 17 0.000007646 17 100%
1931 16 0.000007603 16 100%
1932 26 0.000012315 26 100%
1933 37 0.000018505 37 100%
1934 51 0.000024557 51 100%
1935 52 0.000024882 52 100%
1936 56 0.000026954 56 100%
1937 79 0.000037078 79 100%
1938 60 0.000027118 60 100%
1939 74 0.000033584 74 100%
1940 85 0.000036913 85 100%
1941 98 0.000040223 98 100%
1942 107 0.000039168 107 100%
1943 102 0.000036137 102 100%
1944 219 0.00008141 219 100%
1945 205 0.000077274 205 100%
1946 417 0.000130504 417 100%
1947 679 0.00018849 679 100%
1948 1125 0.000325849 1125 100%
1949 2398 0.000688136 2392 6 99%
1950 6184 0.001765164 6176 8 100%
1951 17089 0.004639036 17065 24 100%
1952 26867 0.007073977 26832 35 100%
1953 36907 0.009577169 36855 52 100%
1954 45984 0.011551714 45897 87 100%
1955 50635 0.012611206 50560 75 100%
1956 48414 0.011742315 48324 90 100%
1957 42799 0.010185041 42727 72 100%
1958 35605 0.008612923 35524 81 100%
1959 31454 0.007564709 31387 67 100%
1960 26803 0.006452622 26728 75 99%
1961 22213 0.005362479 22161 52 100%
1962 20638 0.005114275 20593 45 100%
1963 17370 0.004388358 17335 35 100%
1964 15377 0.003955392 15329 48 99%
1965 13134 0.003622724 13098 36 99%
1966 11294 0.003249459 11262 32 99%
1967 10237 0.003015408 10217 20 100%
1968 9128 0.00270186 9096 32 99%
1969 7987 0.002298204 7952 35 99%
1970 7219 0.002001656 7197 22 99%
1971 5949 0.001733212 5928 21 99%
1972 4682 0.001489662 4666 16 99%
1973 3669 0.001216154 3652 17 99%
1974 3135 0.00103125 3129 6 100%
1975 2453 0.000812415 2444 9 99%
1976 2075 0.000683848 2069 6 99%
1977 1968 0.000619551 1961 7 99%
1978 1870 0.000589186 1870 100%
1979 1693 0.000508867 1688 5 99%
1980 1558 0.000452315 1558 100%
1981 1350 0.000390244 1342 8 99%
1982 1322 0.000376857 1313 9 99%
1983 1093 0.000315591 1084 9 98%
1984 1025 0.000293801 1020 5 99%
1985 917 0.000256927 917 100%
1986 776 0.000218157 776 100%
1987 641 0.000177778 641 100%
1988 618 0.000167251 618 100%
1989 555 0.000144364 555 100%
1990 542 0.000137129 542 100%
1991 478 0.000122713 478 100%
1992 353 0.000091897 353 100%
1993 356 0.000094423 356 100%
1994 308 0.000082848 308 100%
1995 257 0.000070177 257 100%
1996 226 0.000061965 226 100%
1997 213 0.000058746 213 100%
1998 205 0.000055734 205 100%
1999 187 0.000050624 187 100%
2000 164 0.000043387 164 100%
2001 143 0.000038201 143 100%
2002 140 0.00003745 140 100%
2003 123 0.000032349 123 100%
2004 132 0.000034547 132 100%
2005 104 0.000027049 104 100%
2006 118 0.000029827 118 100%
2007 120 0.000030017 120 100%
2008 88 0.000022388 88 100%
2009 81 0.000021203 81 100%
2010 73 0.000019752 73 100%
2011 64 0.000017497 64 100%
2012 68 0.000018593 68 100%
2013 48 0.000013166 48 100%
2014 54 0.000014569 54 100%
2015 38 0.000010268 38 100%
2016 53 0.000014447 53 100%
2017 45 0.000012583 45 100%
2018 50 0.000014221 50 100%
2019 54 0.000015558 54 100%
2020 44 0.000013171 44 100%
2021 43 0.000012692 43 100%
2022 39 0.000011528 39 100%
2023 30 0.00000906 30 100%
2024 43 0.000012919 43 100%

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