Deb
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A debutante (a young woman who makes her first formal appearance in society)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dɛb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Deb is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. In India it is the 2nd most common surname.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 3.6Kas Devi
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.7Kas Devi
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Deb itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- #9 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 585 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Devi in IN India, ID Indonesia, MY Malaysia and 1 more and Dev in NP Nepal, BD Bangladesh.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A debutante (a young woman who makes her first formal appearance in society).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Deb counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #116 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | listed | Dev | 64 |
| IN India | #2 | 84,232as Devi | 1 in 16K | 84K | Devi | 238 |
| ID Indonesia | #289 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | #12 | Devi | 203 |
| MY Malaysia | #339 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 354 | Devi | 72 |
| NP Nepal | — | 7,418as Dev | 1 in 4.1K | 7.4K | Dev | 53 |
| KW Kuwait | #263 | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Devi | 11 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Deb is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, clipping of debiel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pau, sugar cane
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, be drunk
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bnt-pro, être ivre
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Deb Mukherjeeb. 1941INIndian actor
- Deb Fischerb. 1951USAmerican politician (born 1951)
- Deb Bakerb. 1953USAmerican mystery writer from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
- Deb Higginsb. 1954CACanadian politician
- Deb Haalandb. 1960USAmerican politician (born 1960)
- Deb Coveyb. 1961CACanadian field hockey player-coach
- Deb Adairb. 1966USFilm sound engineer
- Deb Carsonb. 1966USAmerican sports anchor
- Deb Mellb. 1968USAmerican politician
- Deb RoyCACanadian computer scientist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 81K | #215 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 55K | #8 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Deb mean, and where does it come from?
- A debutante (a young woman who makes her first formal appearance in society). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Deb a male or female name?
- Deb is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- How do you pronounce Deb?
- A machine transcription gives /dɛb/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Deb?
- In the etymology graph, Debbie, Debora and Debi are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Deborah.
- In which country does Deb have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 138 thousand people named Deb in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dev.
- How common is the name Deb?
- In India, the national register counted 84,232 people named Devi, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Deb compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Deb is the 116th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/debThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Deb” — the 116th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.