Detra vs Detrick
American parents have registered 2,048 Detras since 1880, against 1,536 Detricks. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Detra Detrick
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 77 years in which either name was published, Detrick for 42 years and Detra for 35 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.
Side by side
| Detra | Detrick | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,048 | 1,536 |
| Most in one year | 107 | 68 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 1,900 | 1,400 |
| Median age today | 55 | 41 |
| Peak year | 1970 | 1976 |
| Best rank | 1,099th girls | 1,005th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1944 | 1963 |
| Girls / boys | 2,048 / 0 | 25 / 1,511 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Detras alive today are over 55; half the Detricks are over 41. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Detra South Carolina (5.7×), Texas (4.5×), Louisiana (3.1×)
- Detrick Mississippi (16.1×), Louisiana (5.5×), Alabama (5.1×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Compare something else
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Detra and Detrick.