Detra — girls' name

What the Data Says About Detra

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,048 babies named Detra between 1944 and 1998, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Detra currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 107 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Detra performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 735 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Detra shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 267 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and South Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Detra in 19 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Detra in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,048 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.