Detra
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables.
Babies a year
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no recent records
Rarity
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among names in use
US popularity
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outside the top 1000
UK popularity
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outside the ONS list
Detra by the numbers
Its American peak was 107 babies in 1970, making it a 1970s name.
What we can tell you about Detra
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
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