Detric
Detric was last recorded in 2018, when 6 babies were given it; 431 Americans have been recorded with it between 1964 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Detric by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Detric?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,105, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1977, the peak
Detric peaked in 1977, when 20 boys were given it, #2,287 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | #11,105 | 3.3 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,534 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,971 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,731 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,349 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,992 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,793 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,101 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,032 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,179 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 8 | #7,717 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,428 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,667 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,442 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,500 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,356 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,539 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,976 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,279 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,742 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,692 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,819 | 7.3 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,387 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,317 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,080 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,561 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,856 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,286 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 10 | #3,942 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,156 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,264 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,139 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,692 | 9.9 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,702 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,287 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 13 | #2,980 | 8.3 |
| 1975 | 14 | #2,785 | 9.0 |
| 1974 | 11 | #3,181 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 15 | #2,530 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,859 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,742 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,891 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,550 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Detric a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 431 Americans recorded as Detric, 1% are girls and 99% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Detric: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Detric, and how old are they?
An estimated 406 Americans named Detric and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 28 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 383 people named Detric (40 women and girls, 343 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 413 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,101 babies since 1880, Detric is the second most given (21% 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 Detric
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 Detric and names like it
- Compare Detric and DetrickBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDetric peaked in 1977.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Detric since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Detric.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Detric alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with DMost given first.