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
- 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
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 | — | |
| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
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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.
Where Desi is popular in 1973
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Alabama#391 · 1 in 4,434
- Georgia#501 · 1 in 6,520
- Texas#878 · 1 in 14,959
Best ever in a state: #338 in New Mexico, 1988.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Alabama | #391 | 6 | 1 in 4,434 |
| Georgia | #501 | 6 | 1 in 6,520 |
| Texas | #878 | 7 | 1 in 14,959 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Desi
- 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)
- Debuted 1948
- Peaked 1970 at #979 (68 births)
- Births halved by 1976, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · 1956–1972
- 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
- 22.9% of all boys named Desi (537) were born in this decade
- 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.
Desi in 1973
Top girls' names in 1973
Top boys' names in 1973
More about 1973
girls
1,458,209 girls got a published name in 1973; 1 in 162,023 of them was named Desi, which outranked 43.1% of the 9,810 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,191Yvetta10
- #5,191Zoie10
- #5,191Zuri10
- #5,580Desi9
- #5,580Adelaide9
- #5,580Adella9
- #5,580Afi9
- #6,080Abril8
- #6,080Adine8
- #6,080Adrienna8
Tied with 499 names at #5,580; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,558,576 boys got a published name in 1973; 1 in 29,973 of them was named Desi, which outranked 80.7% of the 5,877 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,123Kristin53
- #1,123Paris53
- #1,123Westley53
- #1,136Desi52
- #1,136Asa52
- #1,136Constantine52
- #1,136Dimitrios52
- #1,147Anthoney51
- #1,147Benson51
- #1,147Boris51
Tied with 10 names at #1,136; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 669Jabbar#917 → #1,586
- ↓ 361Wes#993 → #1,354
- ↓ 326Paris#797 → #1,123
- ↓ 284Christophe#984 → #1,268
- ↓ 272Bennett#851 → #1,123
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.