Deitra
Deitra was last recorded in 1993, when 9 babies were given it; 1,032 Americans have been recorded with it between 1944 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Deitra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Deitra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,905, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
52 babies in 1964, the peak
Deitra peaked in 1964, when 52 girls were given it, #1,581 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 9 | #8,905 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,643 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,765 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,558 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,945 | 4.3 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,748 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,922 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,168 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,035 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,585 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 24 | #3,439 | 14.2 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,890 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,015 | 17.5 |
| 1979 | 31 | #2,806 | 19.3 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,532 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,623 | 20.9 |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,346 | 23.9 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,420 | 13.7 |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,355 | 22.5 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,254 | 13.7 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,466 | 19.1 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,492 | 18.0 |
| 1970 | 45 | #1,908 | 25.7 |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,219 | 19.6 |
| 1968 | 43 | #1,815 | 26.2 |
| 1967 | 30 | #2,176 | 18.2 |
| 1966 | 29 | #2,201 | 17.1 |
| 1965 | 32 | #2,074 | 18.1 |
| 1964 | 52 | #1,581 | 27.4 |
| 1963 | 28 | #2,265 | 14.5 |
| 1962 | 37 | #1,896 | 18.8 |
| 1961 | 42 | #1,770 | 20.8 |
| 1960 | 33 | #1,988 | 16.3 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,140 | 7.4 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,622 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,966 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,139 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,008 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,746 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,606 | 8.9 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,937 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,231 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,006 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,371 | 10.2 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,406 | 10.2 |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,168 | 12.2 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,755 | 17.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Deitra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Deitra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Deitra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Deitra, and how old are they?
An estimated 907 Americans named Deitra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (88% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 48 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 851 people named Deitra (850 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 945 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,133 babies since 1880, Deitra is the second most given (25% 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 Deitra
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 Deitra and names like it
- Compare Deitra and DetraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sDeitra peaked in 1964.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Deitra since 1910.
- The top names of 1964The year the most babies were named Deitra.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Deitra alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.