Does anyone know anything about the surname "debe"?

Question

Does anyone know anything about the surname "debe"?

Answer 1

Closest I can find is 'Debes' maybe it's a variant.

Debes  

Last name origins & meanings:

French (Debès): topographic name from Church Latin bettiu ‘birch tree’, ‘birch wood’ (from Gaulish betu), or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, of which there are examples in Dordogne, Isère, and Puy-de-Dôme.

German: variant of Debus.

Hungarian: from the old secular personal name Debes.

From a Spanish dictionary  !!

Spanish----

debe

debe haber una razón

debe tener una razón

debelador

debeladora

debelar

----English----

debenture

Answer 2

There are a few listed in Maine in the 1860 census spelled as De Be.  And some in the 1880 census, originally from Germany, spelled Debe.  It later census, there are immigrants from Italy and Austria.