Detra
Recorded 1944–1998 · United States
Detra was most popular in 1970, when 107 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,828 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,048 people named Detra.
Detra over time
How old is the name Detra?
Detra first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1944, which makes it about 81 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 52 of the 82 years since. It was last recorded in 1998.
How many people are named Detra?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,048 American births named Detra between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,870 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Detra in 2025?
Detra was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Detra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Detra is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,048 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Detra?
Roughly 1,870 Americans named Detra are alive today — 91% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 56 years old, and half are between 49 and 62.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Detra is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org