Deetta
Deetta was last recorded in 1991, when 5 babies were given it; 1,177 Americans have been recorded with it between 1883 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deetta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,694, in 1991; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1941, the peak
Deetta peaked in 1941, when 34 girls were given it, #1,319 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 5 | #13,694 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,494 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,270 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,837 | 3.5 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,440 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,973 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,770 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,596 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,170 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,404 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 12 | #4,789 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,621 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,576 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,822 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,288 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,008 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,268 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,801 | 12.1 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,288 | 8.9 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,404 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,840 | 10.6 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,798 | 10.4 |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,618 | 11.2 |
| 1961 | 21 | #2,689 | 10.4 |
| 1960 | 33 | #1,987 | 16.3 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,778 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 25 | #2,272 | 12.4 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,834 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,644 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,917 | 15.9 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,844 | 16.5 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,612 | 9.0 |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,512 | 9.7 |
| 1951 | 25 | #1,974 | 13.9 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,688 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,082 | 12.9 |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,790 | 16.5 |
| 1947 | 19 | #2,295 | 10.7 |
| 1946 | 26 | #1,780 | 16.5 |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,627 | 19.9 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,924 | 15.1 |
| 1943 | 26 | #1,675 | 18.6 |
| 1942 | 25 | #1,673 | 18.5 |
| 1941 | 34 | #1,319 | 28.1 |
| 1940 | 21 | #1,753 | 18.4 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,690 | 19.1 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,620 | 10.0 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,646 | 20.7 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,294 | 12.5 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,847 | 5.7 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,448 | 11.5 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,186 | 13.9 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,968 | 15.9 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,611 | 10.3 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,449 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,967 | 9.0 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,110 | 14.7 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,901 | 9.2 |
| 1926 | 17 | #2,182 | 14.3 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,647 | 10.7 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,941 | 16.8 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,764 | 9.9 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,847 | 18.3 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,806 | 9.7 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,619 | 10.8 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,411 | 12.4 |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,123 | 14.7 |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,016 | 15.7 |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,050 | 15.3 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,741 | 10.2 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,959 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,901 | 9.6 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,706 | 10.8 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,653 | 21.4 |
| 1883 | 5 | #953 | 44.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Deetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 75 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Deetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deetta, and how old are they?
An estimated 634 Americans named Deetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (54% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 59 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 758 people named Deetta (758 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 732 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,416 babies since 1880, Deetta is the most given (49% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Deetta
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Deetta and names like it
- Compare Deetta and DeetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sDeetta peaked in 1941.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deetta since 1910.
- The top names of 1941The year the most babies were named Deetta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Deetta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.