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Detra

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Detra is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
1970107 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1944
2,048people given the name
Babies named Detra, by year of birthgirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

2,048 girls have been named Detra in the United States since 1944, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1970, with 107 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 107 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1970, and the 1970s alone account for 36%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Detra
1940s52
1950s208
1960s718
1970s735
1980s273
1990s62

In 1970, its biggest year

Detra was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1970 were Jennifer, Lisa, Kimberly, Michelle and Amy. See all of 1970.

Names that rose and fell with Detra

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.