Detta
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries
/dətta/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Detta is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 960K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M
- BRBrazil≈1 in 34M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 80K (inferred from the name graph)
≈400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Detta counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | 13 | Detta | 4 |
| US United States | 190 | 1 in 1.8M | 190 | Detta | 111 |
| DE Germany | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Detta | 22 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | listed | Detta | 21 |
| CA Canada | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Detta | 40 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Detta | 3 |
| IE Ireland | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Detta | 9 |
| NL Netherlands | 18 | 1 in 960K | 18 | Detta | 10 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Detta is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Italian: short form of various given names such as Benedetta (see BENEDICT ) and Bernardetta (see BERNADETTE ).
as a word
In Italian, feminine singular of detto
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, neuter singular of denna
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, to drop, fall
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Faroese, to fall
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jolie Dettab. 1968CDCongolese singer-songwriter, dancer, and evangelist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Detta?
- In Indonesian /dətta/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Detta a male or female name?
- Detta is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Detta?
- Mondonomo estimates about 403 people named Detta in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled detta. After it come United States, Germany, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Detta?
- In the United States, the national register counted 190 people named Detta in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Detta?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dettaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Detta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.