Girls' name · since 1955
Denetta
195 babies named Denetta in U.S. Social Security records since 1955, with the highest year being 1971. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #20,057 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 195
- born since 1955
- 1960s
- peak decade
Denetta is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 195 have been recorded since 1955.
Denetta has 195 recorded births among girls since 1955, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1960s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1955 to 1993.
- #20,057 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 195 born since 1955
- 1960s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Denetta ranks #20,057 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 195 born since 1955, peaking in the 1960s.
- #20,057 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 195
- born since 1955
- 1960s
- peak decade
Denetta's 195 recorded births place it above 72.2% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Denetta's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Denetta's full recorded timeline at 1972, 43% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 57% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1956, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1971 peak of 16 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Denetta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1955–1993
- Peak year (1971)
- 16
- Annual births at peak, across 39 years of records
Denetta by decade
1960s is the heaviest window (63 births, 32% of the file).
1960s was Denetta's strongest decade.
63 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 32% of all-time use.
Denetta births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s
1950s
28 births
- 1960s
1960s
63 births
- 1970s
1970s
63 births
- 1980s
1980s
31 births
- 1990s 10
1990s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 1960s at 63 births (32% of all-time use).
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- Denetta's decade-level peak was the 1960s (63 total births); usage has since declined to 10 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Denetta: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1971)
Similar record span (~38 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1955–1993 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Denetta draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.