Deatrice
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Deatrice has been given to 621 babies in the U.S. since 1944. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1962, with 39 recorded.
Babies named Deatrice, 1993
1 in 538,000
Deatrice over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Deatrice?
Deatrice had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1993
- 1 in 538,000
- 7 of 3,768,729 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 258,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1993
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 373,185 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Deatrice sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1993 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 373,185 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deatrice. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Deatrices were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Deatrice was born before 1968 — so the typical Deatrice is around 57 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 44.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 45.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 604
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (273).
Is Deatrice rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1962 (39)
- Years since peak
- 63
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.9% average annual change
Spellings of Deatrice
Deatrice is not the most common spelling — Beatrice is, with 77.7% against Deatrice's 0.25%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Deatrice is used
Across 1910–2025, Deatrice was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 931,727 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4Louisiana1 in —
- 5New York1 in —
- 6Pennsylvania1 in —
- 7South Carolina1 in —
- 8Virginia1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Deatrice has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Deatrice by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Deatrice
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Deatrice
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.