Detta — girls' name

What the Data Says About Detta

The Social Security Administration has registered 203 babies named Detta between 1914 and 1979, spanning 66 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Detta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1979. The name reached its historical peak in 1930, when 15 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Detta performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 53 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Detta shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Nebraska, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kansas. In total, SSA state-level files list Detta in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Detta 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 203 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.