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Deisy vs Deitra

American parents have registered 3,107 Deisys since 1880, against 1,032 Deitras. Deisy is still ahead, with 35 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Deisy against Deitra, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Deisy Deitra

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 80 years in which either name was published, Deisy for 43 years and Deitra for 37 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Deisy Deitra
Total US births 3,1071,032
Most in one year 13752
Babies in 2025 35under 5
Estimated living today 3,100910
Median age today 2255
Peak year 20061964
Best rank 1,574th girls1,578th girls
Rank in 2025 4,067thunranked
First recorded 19721944
Girls / boys 3,107 / 01,032 / 0

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 Deitras alive today are over 55; half the Deisys are over 22. That is 33 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Deisy and Deitra.