Desi
#4,067 for girls in 2025, 35 births · #4,539 for boys in 2025, 22 births
Given to boys 69.1% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1970 · 68 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,347since 1948
Desi over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,067 | 35 | #4,539 | 22 |
| 2024 | #3,963 | 37 | #3,161 | 38 |
| 2023 | #4,454 | 31 | #3,629 | 31 |
| 2022 | #3,653 | 42 | #3,617 | 31 |
| 2021 | #4,167 | 34 | #4,494 | 22 |
| 2020 | #4,169 | 33 | #3,497 | 31 |
| 2019 | #4,773 | 28 | #4,230 | 24 |
| 2018 | #4,076 | 35 | #6,345 | 13 |
| 2017 | #6,044 | 20 | #4,331 | 23 |
| 2016 | #5,445 | 24 | #4,624 | 21 |
| 2015 | #6,452 | 19 | #5,746 | 15 |
| 2014 | #6,207 | 20 | #5,252 | 17 |
| 2013 | #6,729 | 18 | #4,804 | 19 |
| 2012 | #7,456 | 16 | #3,894 | 26 |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 | #3,510 | 30 |
| 2010 | #5,977 | 22 | #3,812 | 27 |
| 2009 | #8,454 | 14 | #3,399 | 32 |
| 2008 | #8,965 | 13 | #4,901 | 19 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #4,243 | 23 |
| 2006 | #5,709 | 23 | #4,675 | 19 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | #6,226 | 12 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #3,860 | 23 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #3,119 | 30 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #3,188 | 28 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #3,721 | 22 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #2,736 | 33 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #2,865 | 29 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #3,486 | 21 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | #2,546 | 31 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | #3,107 | 23 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | #4,280 | 14 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #2,847 | 25 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #2,347 | 32 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #2,532 | 28 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #2,227 | 32 |
| 1990 | — | #2,373 | 29 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,690 | 23 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,989 | 32 | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #2,333 | 24 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | #1,962 | 30 |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | #2,293 | 23 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 | #1,979 | 27 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | #1,711 | 33 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | #2,341 | 21 |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 | #1,629 | 36 |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 | #1,313 | 51 |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | #1,116 | 64 |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 | #1,272 | 50 |
| 1977 | #4,235 | 16 | #1,268 | 49 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | #1,677 | 31 |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 | #1,280 | 45 |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 | #1,135 | 52 |
| 1973 | #5,580 | 9 | #1,136 | 52 |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 | #1,000 | 65 |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 | #1,043 | 61 |
| 1970 | #4,492 | 12 | #979 | 68 |
| 1969 | — | #1,198 | 43 | |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | #1,258 | 36 |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 | #1,711 | 21 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | #1,684 | 21 |
| 1965 | #2,605 | 22 | #1,918 | 17 |
| 1964 | #3,108 | 17 | #1,408 | 31 |
| 1963 | #2,619 | 22 | #1,375 | 32 |
| 1962 | #3,161 | 16 | #1,341 | 34 |
| 1961 | #3,189 | 16 | #1,602 | 25 |
| 1960 | #2,820 | 19 | #1,273 | 38 |
| 1959 | #2,054 | 30 | #1,199 | 42 |
| 1958 | #2,376 | 23 | #1,420 | 30 |
| 1957 | #2,926 | 16 | #1,388 | 32 |
| 1956 | #2,453 | 21 | #986 | 57 |
| 1955 | #2,222 | 24 | #1,294 | 34 |
| 1954 | #3,967 | 9 | #1,096 | 47 |
| 1953 | — | #1,058 | 47 | |
| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 | #1,856 | 17 |
| 1951 | — | #3,364 | 6 | |
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| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1948
The first year at least five boys were named Desi! It came in at #3,668, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1948–1950, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Falling
- 1,378 spots since 2024 (#3,161 → #4,539)
- 1,042 spots since 2020 (#3,497 → #4,539)
- 1,207 spots since 2015 (#5,746 → #4,539)
- Biggest jump: 308 spots in 1956 (#1,294 → #986)
- Biggest drop: 402 spots in 1957 (#986 → #1,388)
Rise & fade · boys
22 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1970 at #979 (68 births)
- Births halved by 1976, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · 1956–1972
Share of babies · boys
1 in 24,948
- Highest: 1 in 24,948 boys born in 1972 were named Desi (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 77,640 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #979 in 1970, was only 1 in 27,327 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1970s
- 22.9% of all boys named Desi (537) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
- Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #3,668 (1948) | #3,668 |
| 1950s | 312 | #986 (1956) | #1,518 |
| 1960s | 298 | #1,198 (1969) | #1,477 |
| 1970s | 537 | #979 (1970) | #1,191 |
| 1980s | 300 | #1,313 (1980) | #2,024 |
| 1990s | 264 | #2,227 (1991) | #2,861 |
| 2000s | 241 | #2,736 (2000) | #4,007 |
| 2010s | 215 | #3,510 (2011) | #4,655 |
| 2020s | 175 | #3,161 (2024) | #3,823 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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