Detra
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Detra has been given to 2,048 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 1970, with 107 recorded.
Babies named Detra, 1998
1 in 525,000
Detra 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Detra?
Detra had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1998
- 1 in 525,000
- 7 of 3,677,189 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 252,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1998
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 364,120 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Detra sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1998 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 364,120 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Detra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Detras were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Detra was born before 1970 — so the typical Detra is around 55 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 35.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 35.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,996
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 35.9% of all recorded uses (735).
Is Detra 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1970 (107)
- Years since peak
- 55
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.2% average annual change
Spellings of Detra
Detra is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 39.6% against Detra's 0.15%.
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 Detra is used
Across 1910–2025, Detra was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 133,513 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1South Carolina1 in 33,333
- 2Louisiana1 in 50,000
- 3Texas1 in 50,000
- 4California1 in 100,000
- 5District of Columbia1 in 100,000
- 6Florida1 in 100,000
- 7Georgia1 in 100,000
- 8North Carolina1 in 100,000
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. Detra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Detra by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Detra
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Detra
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Detra, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Detra
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.