Debbie

Debbie
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Hebrew
Meaning	bee
Other names
Related names	Deb, Debs, Debra, Deborah

Last updated July 04, 2025

Debbie (or Debby or Deb) is a feminine given name, commonly but not always short for Deborah (or Debra and related variants).

Notable people

Debbie Allen, American actress, choreographer and film director
Debbie Abrahams, British Labour Party politician
Debbie Amis Bell, American Civil Rights activist
Debbie Armstrong, American athlete
Debby Boone, American singer and author
Debbie Brill, Canadian high jumper
Debbie Cook, Californian politician, mayor of Huntington Beach, California
Debbie Crosbie (born 1969/1970), British banker
Debbie Deb, American singer
Debbie Fuller, Canadian diver
Debbie Gibson, American singer, songwriter and actress
Debbie Harry, lead singer from the band Blondie
Debbie Lesko, American politician
Debbie Marti, English high jumper
Debbie Matenopoulos, American television personality and actress
Debbie McLeod, Scottish field hockey player
Debbie Meyer, American swimmer
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, American politician
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, New Zealand politician
Debbie O'Malley, American politician
Debbie Reynolds, American actress (born Mary Frances Reynolds)
Debby Ryan, American actress
Debbie Ryan, American basketball coach
Debby Susanto, Indonesian former badminton player
Debbie Muir (born 1953), Canadian former synchronized swimmer and coach
Debbie Stabenow, American legislator
Debbie Turner, actor, Marta von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music'
Debbye Turner, Miss America 1990
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, American legislator
Debbie Rowe, Michael Jackson’s ex wife
Debbie Young, British writer
Debbie Yow, American college basketball player

Fictional characters

Debbie Bates , a character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders
Debbie Benton, (portrayed by Bambi Woods), the eponymous lead in the film, Debbie Does Dallas
Debbie Dean (Hollyoaks) (portrayed by Jodi Albert), a character in the British soap opera, Hollyoaks
Debbie Dingle (portrayed by Charley Webb), a character in the British soap opera, Emmerdale
Debbie Downer (portrayed by Rachel Dratch), a character on Saturday Night Live
Debbie Edwards (portrayed by Natalie Wood and Lana Wood), character in the film, The Searchers
Debbie Eagan, from the Netflix series GLOW
Debbie Gallagher (portrayed by Rebecca Ryan), one of the lead characters in British & American television drama, Shameless & Shameless (portrayed by Emma Kenney)
Debbie Grayson, wife to Omni-Man in Invincible
Debbie Jellinsky (portrayed by Joan Cusack), main antagonist in the film Addams Family Values
Debbie Kang, minor character in Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
Debbie Turnbull (voiced by Lorraine Pilkington), mother of protagonist Tommy Turnbull in the British-French animated series Robotboy

Songs

"Debbie" by R. Stevie Moore from the album Everything You Always Wanted To Know About R. Stevie Moore But Were Afraid To Ask
"Debbie," one of two new songs from the B-52s' 1998 compilation album Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation
"Debbie character used in the song "1985" by American pop-rock band Bowling for Soup
"Debbie", by Johnny Crawford from A Young Man's Fancy, 1962
"Debbie", by Wale from Wow... That's Crazy , 2019

Other uses

Little Debbie snacks
List of storms named Debbie
List of storms named Debby
Debby (polar bear), the world's oldest polar bear
"Debbie (Brooklyn Nine-Nine episode)", a season 7 episode of the sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Debbie Does Dallas, a 1978 film

References

↑ "Debbie name Meaning and Origin". babys.name. Retrieved 2023-03-07.

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[1] ↑ "Debbie name Meaning and Origin". babys.name. Retrieved 2023-03-07.

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