Deatrice
Feminine
Deatrice is a mid-century American name that sounds like Beatrice with a D, or Dee joined to the -trice of Beatrice. The name it echoes belonged to an artist who was still throwing pots at a hundred and helped inspire the heroine of Titanic.
How old is the name Deatrice?
Deatrice first appears in US birth records in 1944 — 81 years ago. The typical Deatrice alive today was born around 1968, making them about 57 years old. About 600 people named Deatrice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Deatrice most popular?
Deatrice peaked in 1962, reaching #1826 nationally. See the whole 1962 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Deatrice
Beatrice Wood, a New York girl who ran away to be an actress and fell in with the Dadaists in Paris, became a potter late in life and kept working into her hundred and fifth year in Ojai, California, telling interviewers she owed her long life to chocolate and young men. James Cameron said her autobiography helped shape Rose, the old woman who tells the story of Titanic. Deatrice keeps that name's rhythm and changes its first letter. It sounds warm and determined.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Deatrice may be Beatrice with a D, or Dee- joined to a -trice ending, and nothing records which.
Pronouncing Deatrice
DEE-uh-tris
Three syllables with the stress on the first.
Nicknames for Deatrice
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1944
- Most girls named
- 196239 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1826reached in 1962
- Change vs 1991
- +16.7%7 in 1993, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Deatrices among us
people named Deatrice are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Deatrice sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Close to Beatrice, a name everyone knows.
- Comes with Dee as a ready short form.
- Rare, so a Deatrice is unlikely to share her name.
- People will hear Beatrice and write it that way.
- It reads as a mid-century name.
- It has no documented meaning of its own.
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Frequently asked
- How many Deatrices are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Deatrice are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Deatrice in 2025?
- Deatrice is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Deatrice with classmates?
- Deatrice will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with D, all years combined.
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