I like
Deborah, but am not a fan of
Debbie (If someone's going to shorten it, they may as well shorten it all the way to
Deb)...
Debbie has this image of either an ulra conservatively dressed bank teller or business woman or a beach bimbo that
Jack and
Larry would have gone for on Three's Company back in the day. Plus, I realize it's a symptom of living in a country still cleaning up after major natural disasters months after they happened, but I just realized a few min. ago that sound-wise,
Debbie is only 1 letter-sound away from debris... which makes me think of picking through random stuff still lying around in Kamaishi 5 months after the tsunami and finding boots, household items, concrete, someone's hospital card, etc. (they're still finding occasional bodies and bones and such, but I didn't come across any of those)