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Deitra

Girls' name

Variant of Deirdre

Deitra has been given to 1,032 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 1964, with 52 recorded.

Babies named Deitra, 1993

1 in 419,000

Deitra over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Deitra: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Deirdre

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Deitra means

Deitra is a variant of Deirdre.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Deitra is used in English (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Deitra → Deirdre → Deirdre → Derdriu. The family’s meaning is “rages, resounds”, recorded in Old Irish with the source elements derdrethar.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Deirdre.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,032 girls were recorded with the name Deitra between 1944 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 52 in 1964; its best national rank was #1,581 in 1964.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Deitra?

Deitra 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 419,000
9 of 3,768,729 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1993
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
290,255 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Deitra sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 290,255 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deitra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Deitras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Deitra was born before 1969 — so the typical Deitra is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
34.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
936
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 34.8% of all recorded uses (359).

Is Deitra 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 1964 (52)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,581
1964

Spellings of Deitra

Deitra is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 77.2% against Deitra's 0.14%.

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 Deitra is used

Across 1910–2025, Deitra was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 464,694 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3North Carolina1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 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. Deitra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Deitra by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,581
1964
Peak year
1964
52 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
1,032
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Deitra

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Deitra

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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