Detroit
loc · Latin script
Meaning: city. MI; river, US & Canada
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Detroit is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2M(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 5.2M
- GYGuyana1 in 375K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- 1 in 375K (inferred from the name graph)
165 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
city. MI; river, US & Canada
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Detroit 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 165 | 1 in 2M | 152 | Detroit | 83 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | — | Detroit | 14 |
| AU Australia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | 2 | — | 10 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 812K | 11 | — | 10 |
| CA Canada | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 7.2M | — | Detroit | 4 |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | 1 |
165 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Detroit is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, Detroit (a city in Michigan, United States)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, Detroit (a city in the United States)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, grad i luka na jezeru Erie, država Michigan, SAD, 1.028.000 stan.
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 152 | #43,063 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 13 | #43,063 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1922 | 12 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2006 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1932 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1916 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 6 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Detroit mean, and where does it come from?
- city. MI; river, US & Canada Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Detroit have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 165 people named Detroit, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled detroit.
- Where is Detroit most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Detroit is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 375 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Detroit?
- In the United States, the national register counted 165 people named Detroit in 2020, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/detroitThe 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, “Detroit”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.