Dietra — girls' name
675 babies named Dietra in U.S. Social Security records since 1944, with the highest year being 1970. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
37% of everyone ever named Dietra was born in this single decade.
37 babies were named Dietra in 1970 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Dietra
The Social Security Administration has registered 675 babies named Dietra between 1944 and 1994, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dietra currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1994. The name reached its historical peak in 1970, when 37 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Dietra performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 248 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Dietra shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 23 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Dietra in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Dietra 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 675 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.
Dietra at a glance
Last recorded 1994Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Dietra popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1994–1944
- Peak year (1970)
- 37
- Annual births at peak — across 51 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1994.
675 total births across 51 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1970 with 37 births in a single year.
Dietra by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 248 births that decade — 37% of Dietra's all-time total
Dietra decade highlights
- Peak decade 248 births
- Runner-up 210 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Dietra's strongest decade
248 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 37% of all-time use.
Dietra by state
Where Dietra concentrates geographically — total births since 1944
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 23 | 3.4% |
| #2 | Pennsylvania | | 6 | 0.9% |
| #3 | California | | 5 | 0.7% |
| #4 | District of Columbia | | 5 | 0.7% |
| #5 | Indiana | | 5 | 0.7% |
| #6 | New York | | 5 | 0.7% |
23 of 675 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 6 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 3.4% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 0.9% of nationwide
- California 0.7% of nationwide
- District of Columbia 0.7% of nationwide
- Indiana 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 6 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 3.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1944–1994 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.