Desirae
#2,691 for girls in 2025, 64 births
- Peak · girls
- 1993 · 540 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 13,160since 1955
Desirae over time
Rank among girls' names. Desirae has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,691 | 64 |
| 2024 | #2,857 | 58 |
| 2023 | #3,225 | 50 |
| 2022 | #2,554 | 69 |
| 2021 | #2,533 | 69 |
| 2020 | #2,416 | 72 |
| 2019 | #2,249 | 81 |
| 2018 | #2,113 | 90 |
| 2017 | #2,401 | 75 |
| 2016 | #2,068 | 95 |
| 2015 | #1,622 | 132 |
| 2014 | #1,818 | 112 |
| 2013 | #1,457 | 153 |
| 2012 | #1,408 | 163 |
| 2011 | #1,144 | 214 |
| 2010 | #1,008 | 249 |
| 2009 | #1,040 | 250 |
| 2008 | #981 | 272 |
| 2007 | #926 | 292 |
| 2006 | #875 | 303 |
| 2005 | #782 | 332 |
| 2004 | #835 | 295 |
| 2003 | #775 | 320 |
| 2002 | #698 | 359 |
| 2001 | #650 | 388 |
| 2000 | #613 | 414 |
| 1999 | #667 | 343 |
| 1998 | #615 | 391 |
| 1997 | #581 | 400 |
| 1996 | #524 | 451 |
| 1995 | #519 | 466 |
| 1994 | #500 | 497 |
| 1993 | #469 | 540 |
| 1992 | #477 | 517 |
| 1991 | #483 | 500 |
| 1990 | #481 | 508 |
| 1989 | #533 | 433 |
| 1988 | #580 | 352 |
| 1987 | #572 | 347 |
| 1986 | #670 | 273 |
| 1985 | #586 | 333 |
| 1984 | #758 | 213 |
| 1983 | #661 | 260 |
| 1982 | #717 | 242 |
| 1981 | #895 | 167 |
| 1980 | #798 | 204 |
| 1979 | #912 | 162 |
| 1978 | #826 | 181 |
| 1977 | #1,801 | 56 |
| 1976 | #2,932 | 25 |
| 1975 | #1,672 | 57 |
| 1974 | #1,772 | 50 |
| 1973 | #3,122 | 21 |
| 1972 | #3,062 | 21 |
| 1971 | #3,943 | 15 |
| 1970 | #2,856 | 24 |
| 1969 | #3,774 | 14 |
| 1968 | #4,779 | 9 |
| 1967 | #3,484 | 14 |
| 1966 | #3,740 | 12 |
| 1965 | #3,952 | 11 |
| 1964 | #3,379 | 15 |
| 1963 | #3,176 | 16 |
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 |
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 |
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 |
| 1959 | #4,300 | 9 |
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 |
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| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Desirae! It came in at #5,828, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1955–1957, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Desirae is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#323 · 1 in 1,358
- New Mexico#449 · 1 in 1,604
- Kentucky#479 · 1 in 2,411
- Maryland#555 · 1 in 2,747
- South Carolina#582 · 1 in 2,651
Best ever in a state: #105 in Wyoming, 1985.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #323 | 5 | 1 in 1,358 |
| New Mexico | #449 | 5 | 1 in 1,604 |
| Kentucky | #479 | 8 | 1 in 2,411 |
| Maryland | #555 | 9 | 1 in 2,747 |
| South Carolina | #582 | 7 | 1 in 2,651 |
| Minnesota | #652 | 7 | 1 in 3,542 |
| Texas | #701 | 43 | 1 in 3,876 |
| Virginia | #743 | 9 | 1 in 4,077 |
| Arizona | #836 | 8 | 1 in 4,190 |
| Indiana | #845 | 7 | 1 in 4,528 |
| Michigan | #883 | 8 | 1 in 5,343 |
| North Carolina | #911 | 9 | 1 in 5,157 |
| Ohio | #930 | 9 | 1 in 6,049 |
| Illinois | #963 | 11 | 1 in 5,749 |
| Tennessee | #1,019 | 5 | 1 in 6,104 |
| New Jersey | #1,028 | 6 | 1 in 6,387 |
| Florida | #1,147 | 11 | 1 in 7,485 |
| California | #1,199 | 26 | 1 in 8,396 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,419 | 5 | 1 in 10,926 |
| New York | #1,470 | 9 | 1 in 10,530 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Desirae
- 166 spots since 2024 (#2,857 → #2,691)
- 275 spots since 2020 (#2,416 → #2,691)
- 1,069 spots since 2015 (#1,622 → #2,691)
- Biggest jump: 975 spots in 1978 (#1,801 → #826)
- Biggest drop: 97 spots in 1981 (#798 → #895)
- Debuted 1955
- Peaked 1993 at #469 (540 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 1978–2008
- Highest: 1 in 3,350 girls born in 1993 were named Desirae (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,114 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 35.1% of all girls named Desirae (4,613) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 26 | #4,300 (1959) | #5,243 |
| 1960s | 114 | #3,176 (1963) | #4,129 |
| 1970s | 612 | #826 (1978) | #2,290 |
| 1980s | 2,824 | #533 (1989) | #677 |
| 1990s | 4,613 | #469 (1993) | #532 |
| 2000s | 3,225 | #613 (2000) | #818 |
| 2010s | 1,364 | #1,008 (2010) | #1,729 |
| 2020s | 382 | #2,416 (2020) | #2,713 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Desirae in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
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1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 7,348 of them was named Desirae, which outranked 94.9% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,037Braylee251
- #1,037Gillian251
- #1,037Leigha251
- #1,040Desirae250
- #1,040Bryleigh250
- #1,040Emmalyn250
- #1,040Kendyl250
- #1,045Ashtyn249
- #1,045Lucero249
- #1,047Kianna248
Tied with 4 names at #1,040; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.