Detra
Detra is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1970107 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1944
- 2,048people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,048 girls have been named Detra in the United States since 1944, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1970, with 107 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 107 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1970, and the 1970s alone account for 36%.
By decade
In 1970, its biggest year
Detra was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1970 were Jennifer, Lisa, Kimberly, Michelle and Amy. See all of 1970.
Names that rose and fell with Detra
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Twandapeak 1970
- Jodipeak 1970
- Yolondapeak 1972
- Twanapeak 1974
- Yulandapeak 1968
- Tanjapeak 1970
- Trinapeak 1970
- Marcipeak 1971
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.