Desi

Where Desi comes from

Desi hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1948
    First appearance
    #3,668 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1964
    Desi Reijers born
    Dutch swimmer
  3. 1970
    Peak, #979
    68 babies named Desi — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1976
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,677.
  5. 1981
    Desi Lydic born
    American actor and comedian
  6. 2025
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Desi Lydic · American actor and comedian, born 1981
  • Desi Reijers · Dutch swimmer, born 1964
  • Desi Banks · American comedian, born 1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.