Detrick
Detrick was last recorded in 2024, when 9 babies were given it; 1,536 Americans have been recorded with it between 1963 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,440 Americans named Detrick and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 27 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Detrick by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Detrick?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,486, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
68 babies in 1976, the peak
Detrick peaked in 1976, when 68 boys were given it, #1,005 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9 | #8,486 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,990 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,798 | 6.9 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,637 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,311 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,917 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 14 | #6,067 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,796 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,712 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,775 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 | #7,631 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,092 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,618 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,113 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,048 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,254 | 10.7 |
| 2005 | 27 | #3,549 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 28 | #3,383 | 14.1 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,468 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,692 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 27 | #3,248 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 28 | #3,094 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,024 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 21 | #3,518 | 11.0 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,501 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 20 | #3,435 | 10.6 |
| 1995 | 28 | #2,631 | 14.7 |
| 1994 | 27 | #2,703 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 30 | #2,460 | 15.3 |
| 1992 | 28 | #2,544 | 14.0 |
| 1991 | 32 | #2,246 | 15.8 |
| 1990 | 26 | #2,566 | 12.7 |
| 1989 | 26 | #2,490 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 30 | #2,094 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 21 | #2,581 | 11.2 |
| 1986 | 21 | #2,537 | 11.4 |
| 1985 | 28 | #2,030 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 31 | #1,805 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 32 | #1,760 | 17.9 |
| 1982 | 55 | #1,257 | 30.3 |
| 1981 | 49 | #1,343 | 27.4 |
| 1980 | 63 | #1,148 | 35.3 |
| 1979 | 65 | #1,109 | 37.8 |
| 1978 | 62 | #1,116 | 37.8 |
| 1977 | 65 | #1,073 | 39.6 |
| 1976 | 68 | #1,005 | 43.3 |
| 1975 | 37 | #1,460 | 23.7 |
| 1974 | 37 | #1,421 | 23.5 |
| 1973 | 38 | #1,359 | 24.4 |
| 1972 | 47 | #1,201 | 29.0 |
| 1971 | 38 | #1,383 | 21.5 |
| 1970 | 34 | #1,441 | 18.3 |
| 1969 | 15 | #2,240 | 8.4 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,354 | 7.5 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,823 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,086 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,836 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,712 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,200 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Detrick a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,536 Americans recorded as Detrick, 2% are girls and 98% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Detrick: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Detrick, and how old are they?
1,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,536 Americans ever recorded as Detrick. The median Detrick alive today is 42 years old; half are between 27 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 1,109 people named Detrick (51 women and girls, 1,058 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,438 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 563 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 463 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 315 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 89 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Detrick born?
The states with the most babies named Detrick are Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Louisiana are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 112 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Mississippi | 61 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| Louisiana | 30 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 28 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 20 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arkansas | 13 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 6 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| South Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Detrick with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,101 babies since 1880, Detrick is the most given (73% 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 Detrick
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 Detrick and names like it
- Compare Detrick and DetricBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sDetrick peaked in 1976.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Detrick since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Detrick.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Detrick alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with DMost given first.