Desire
#2,239 for girls in 2025, 82 births · #6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
Given to girls 97.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1992 · 149 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,336since 1955
Desire over time
Rank among girls' names. Desire has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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 | #2,239 | 82 | #6,446 | 13 |
| 2024 | #2,178 | 87 | #6,469 | 13 |
| 2023 | #2,090 | 92 | #6,220 | 14 |
| 2022 | #2,048 | 94 | #8,300 | 9 |
| 2021 | #2,046 | 94 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #2,050 | 90 | #7,034 | 11 |
| 2019 | #2,193 | 84 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #2,048 | 95 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | #1,930 | 104 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | #1,908 | 105 | #8,146 | 9 |
| 2015 | #2,555 | 70 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,469 | 73 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,173 | 86 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,095 | 91 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,898 | 105 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,978 | 101 | #10,766 | 6 |
| 2009 | #1,556 | 145 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,437 | 164 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,726 | 126 | #12,367 | 5 |
| 2006 | #1,608 | 133 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,574 | 129 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,714 | 113 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,612 | 119 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,432 | 133 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,384 | 137 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,395 | 133 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,258 | 147 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,373 | 125 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,377 | 124 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,412 | 117 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,183 | 145 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,312 | 129 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,258 | 136 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,174 | 149 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,184 | 147 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,372 | 115 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,574 | 89 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,409 | 99 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,293 | 108 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,447 | 88 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,410 | 90 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,535 | 74 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,379 | 86 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,822 | 59 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,958 | 54 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,154 | 47 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,187 | 45 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,938 | 50 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,838 | 28 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,728 | 28 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,811 | 26 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,695 | 17 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,787 | 16 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,747 | 25 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,652 | 17 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,110 | 21 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,619 | 15 | — | |
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,959 | 11 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,379 | 15 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,336 | 15 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,793 | 12 | — | |
| 1960 | #5,168 | 7 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,436 | 13 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,543 | 12 | — | |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | — | |
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| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Desire! It came in at #5,208, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1956–1957, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Desire is popular in 1985
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#888 · 1 in 8,427
- New York#979 · 1 in 9,717
Best ever in a state: #371 in Mississippi, 2009.
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #888 | 24 | 1 in 8,427 |
| New York | #979 | 11 | 1 in 9,717 |
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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 Desire
- 61 spots since 2024 (#2,178 → #2,239)
- 189 spots since 2020 (#2,050 → #2,239)
- 316 spots since 2015 (#2,555 → #2,239)
- Debuted 1955
- Peaked 1992 at #1,174 (149 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 22 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,530 girls born in 2008 were named Desire (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 19,601 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,174 in 1992, was only 1 in 12,375 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.0% of all girls named Desire (1,334) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 36 | #3,436 (1959) | #4,568 |
| 1960s | 114 | #3,336 (1963) | #4,092 |
| 1970s | 273 | #1,938 (1978) | #2,949 |
| 1980s | 794 | #1,293 (1987) | #1,598 |
| 1990s | 1,334 | #1,174 (1992) | #1,290 |
| 2000s | 1,332 | #1,384 (2001) | #1,544 |
| 2010s | 914 | #1,898 (2011) | #2,125 |
| 2020s | 539 | #2,046 (2021) | #2,109 |
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.
Desire in 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 19,120 of them was named Desire, which outranked 88.7% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,401Petra91
- #1,401Tamesha91
- #1,401Tawnya91
- #1,410Desire90
- #1,410Brittnie90
- #1,410Fiona90
- #1,410Gianna90
- #1,424Flor89
- #1,424Kellee89
- #1,424Nathan89
Tied with 13 names at #1,410; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.